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Document number: 3901
Date: 05 Jul 1839
Recipient: TREVELYAN Walter Calverley
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: Univ of Newcastle Upon Tyne Robinson Library Trevelyan Family Papers
Collection number: WCT 237
Last updated: 18th June 2012

31 Sackville St London
July 5 1839

Dear Trevelyan

The other day your father & Dr Buckland <1> favoured me with a call to see my photographs, & having learnt your present address I send one as a specimen & if you would like to have any more I should have much pleasure in sending you a packet of them – The magnified images obtained by the Solar microscope are particularly interesting.–<2> Shall I meet you at the Birmingham meeting in August?<3>

Yours very Truly
H. F. Talbot

Notes:

1. Sir John Trevelyan, 5th Bart (1761-1846). William Buckland (1784–1856), Dean of Westminster & scientist. [See Doc. No: 03900].

2. See Doc. No: 03969.

3. WHFT took full advantage of the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science, which met in Birmingham in August 1839. He exhibited 93 specimens of negatives and positives. They were listed in a pamphlet, A Brief Description of the Photogenic Drawings Exhibited at the Meeting of the British Association, at Birmingham, in August, 1839, by H. F. Talbot, Esq..