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Document number: 02699
Date: 13 May 1833
Postmark: 13 May 1833
Watermark: 1832
Recipient: TAYLOR Richard (1)
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine London
Collection number: MS.7684/62
Collection number historic: 67474
Last updated: 25th January 2013

29 Albemarle St <1>
May 13th

Sir

I enclose a short paper <2> which I shall be happy to contribute, if you please to the next number of your Journal.

I wish you would acknowledge the receipt of it & say, whether another <3> which I have begun to write, would be in time if sent 2 or 3 days hence.

I am Sir Your obedt servant
H. F. Talbot

Richard Taylor Esq
Red Lion Court
Fleet St
H. F. Talbot


Notes:

1. WHFT lived at this London address, just down the street from the Royal Institution, for half of April and the whole of May, 1833.

2. WHFT, ‘Remarks on Chemical Changes of Colour’, Philosophical Magazine, v. 2, May 1833, pp. 359–360.

3. The next paper WHFT published in the same magazine was entered the following month, ‘Remarks upon an Optical Phenomenon, seen in Switzerland’, Philosophical Magazine, v. 2, June 1833, p. 425.