Mr.Akerman of numismatic fame told me that out of Rome itself he did not know a richer site for old-world curiosities than Farley; in the course of years we found more than 1200 coins, besides Samian ware, and plenty of common pottery, as well as bronze ornaments, enamelled fibulae, weapons of war, household implements, &c., both of the old British and the Roman, the Anglo-Saxon, and more recent periods; Farley having been a praetorian station on the Ikenild highway.

This is quite a relevant episode of my literary antiquariana.

As also is another respecting "My Mummy Wheat," a record of which found its way into print and made a stir many years ago.

It grew from seeds given to me by Mr.Pettigrew out of an Amenti vase taken from a mummy pit by Sir Gardiner Wilkinson, and very carefully resuscitated by myself in garden-pots filled with well-sifted mould at Albury; it proved to be a new and prolific species of the semi-bearded Talavera kind, and a longest ear of 8-1/2 inches in length (engraved in an agricultural journal) was sent by me to Prince Albert, then a zealous British farmer.
Here I will add a very interesting letter to me on the subject from Faraday, the original being pasted among my autographs.

It will be seen that he excuses having published my letter to him, and refuses to be called Doctor:-- "Royal Institution, _June 11, 1842_.
"My dear Sir,--Your note was a very pleasant event in my day of yesterday, and I thank you heartily for it, and rejoice with you at the success of the crop.