Letter from John Forbes [senior, John Forbes' father] to Joseph Sabine [secretary of the Horticultural Society of London], Horticultural Society, Regent Street, St James', London

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Title: Letter from John Forbes [senior, John Forbes' father] to Joseph Sabine [secretary of the Horticultural Society of London], Horticultural Society, Regent Street, St James', London

Scope & content: Written from Dukinfield

Postmarked ('Stockport'). An opened seal is attached to the letter, which is

Annotated at the top of the page: 'Joseph Sabine received January 7 1824'

John Forbes [senior, Forbes' father] writes in response to Joseph Sabine's letter of 3 Jan; he asks Sabine to send the £25 as soon as possible: 'it was my own neglect and forget that I did not mention this in my last letter to you'; he thanks Sabine for his 'thought and care' of him and his family; he will write to his son John [John Forbes] in a few days; his son James [James Forbes] will be in London about 16 Jan