Autograph Letter Signed ('W. Terlizzick') from William Morris Terlizzick, Devonport hairdresser and fishing tackle maker, inviting 'Captn. Devon' to try out his 'good made peal [sic] Flys and firm Tied ones'. With one of the flies, on a gut line.

12mo, 1 p. On bifolium. Thirteen lines of text. Clear and complete. Fair, on aged and creased paper, with slight rust marking from hooks. Semi-literate, and redolent of the area and period. He asks Devon (not Captain Thomas Barker Devon, RN, who had died in 1846) to 'pardon the Liberty I have taken in writen [sic]' to him. He knows 'the Great difficulty that Gentlemen have in Getting good made peal [sic] Flys and firm Tied ones', and is enclosing 'a few of my Own Making & you will Greatly Oblidge me by your Trying of them'. Should they 'Answer' Devon's 'Rivers' Terlizzick would 'take it a favour by your forwarding me a report of tthe same'. The pearl fly is loosely inserted in the centre of the bifolium, its rusty hook matching one of the rust marks on the paper. Little is to be discovered concerning Terlizzick, except that he operated both parts of his business at 18 Union Street, Plymouth, in 1852.