Dear Henry,

M^r Ibbetson’s book ^<1> arrived quite safe, and I am much obliged to you for it, there are some very pretty patterns of turning in it, I have done nothing in that way for a considerable time. We are going to day, for a short sejour, to Abbotsbury. ^<2>

Believe me
Aff^ly & Truly Y^rs

Ilchester

[Address panel:]

Sherborne, Jan Three & Twenty 1826 Ilchester

H. Talbot Esq^r
31 Sackville S^t
London

Worthing

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Notes:

1. John Holt Ibbetson, Specimens in Eccentric Circular turning: with Practical Instructions for Producing Corresponding Pieces in That Art, new edition (London: W. Wetton, 1825).

2. Abbotsbury, Dorset: home of William Thomas Horner Fox Strangways.