Old Trinity House
Water Lane
Tower Street

24 Nov^r 1828

Mr Talbot
Sir

We are requested by Messrs Doxat & C^{o <1>} to write to you for information of the Value of a Can Flower Roots <sic> on board a Vessell just arrived from Naples. they paying at Duty of 10 Pence the Seed if Garden or Forest pay 6^d <illegible> Onion 1^s/– p pound & whether we are to forward the Can to your Address in Sackville Street ^<2> –

We have the Honor
to Remain
Sir

Your Ob Sts

Cha^s Smith & Son

Henry Talbot Esq^r

31 Sackville Street

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Notes:

1. Doxat & Co, Merchants.

2. 31 Sackville Street, London residence of the Feildings, often used as a London base by WHFT.