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Document number: 3791
Date: Tue 05 Feb 1839
Dating: date added by unknown in pencil
Recipient: ROGET Peter Mark
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: Royal Society, London
Collection number: MC 3.5
Last updated: 1st September 2003

44 Queen Ann St <1>

Tuesday

Dear Sir

I suppose I may depend upon the Council’s coming to some decision upon my paper next Thursday, <2> and not postponing – Upon this understanding I have made arrangements for giving immediate circulation to the paper, <3> as soon as I shall know whether it is to be published as “taken from the Transactions”, or as a private publication of my own;

Believe me
Dear Sir
Yours very truly

H. Fox Talbot

<draft reply on verso> <4>


Notes:

1. 44 Queen Ann Street: London home of the Mundy family and a frequent base for WHFT.

2. The council of the Royal Society objected to WHFT’s proposal to publish the whole of the paper ‘Some Account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing’, which was read before the Society 31 January 1839.

3. The Athenaeum (London), who wished to publish the full contents of WHFT’s paper.

4. Doc. No: 03792.