23 Red Lion Street
Whitechapel
29^th Aug, 1842

Respected Sir

I beg leave to inform you that the Electromagnetic Engine is completed and has been tried. – and works well Your kindly naming the day on which I shall attend with the same and necessary Battery – at your House in Town will greatly oblidge [sic]

Respected Sir Your most obedient Servent
W. T. Henley

Talbot Esq^re

H. F Talbott [sic] Esq^re
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts