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Document number: 07735
Date: 04 Nov 1858
Dating: month and day indistinct
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: BARCLAY George
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 2nd April 2010

22 Gerrard St
Novr 4 1858

Sir

I am gratified with the progress exhibited in the proofs you have sent me a little of that stopping out you have resorted to in some of the skies would enable you to get up some of your half tint without muddling your deeper tones by overbiting

I am still of opinion that you are losing time in confining your attention to small subjects and that you will find great facilities in larger and broader effects from the application of that aquatint ground you shewed me in the spring – I have really been doing so little this autumn that I could well have afforded a months help to you, but things are changing –

Most truly yrs
Geo. Barclay