Avenue Lodge
Brixton Hill
Surrey.
30 October 1848.
Sir
I beg to return you many very sincere thanks for your valuable & interesting work on English Etymologies.1 I had read it, & I am particularly glad to have it hand [sic] to refer to, as I shall have occasion to quote it in a work for which I am collecting materials.
I remember at the time of its appearance being in correspondence with Mr Vernon.2 on the book. It was he who reviewed it in the Literary Gazette.3 He was very fond of etymology & always spoke in the highest terms of your work.
I am, Sir, with a reiteration of my thanks for your obliging present, Your obliged Servant
J. O. Halliwell.
H. Fox Talbot Esqre
&c. &c. &c.
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