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Document number: 4488
Date: 18 Apr 1842
Recipient: HERSCHEL John Frederick William
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: Royal Society, London
Collection number: HS 17:311
Last updated: 30th April 2010

Lacock Abbey
18 April/42

I enclose some specimens of portraits, groups of figures, & other Calotypes <1>– I am going into Germany shortly and hope to make some views of interesting architecture either at Heidelberg, Nuremberg or some other old city.

Yours very truly
H. F. Talbot

Sir J. Herschel &c–

Notes:

1. These calotypes are described by Herschel in his reply of Doc. No: 04490.