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Document number: 8506
Date: 16 Jan 1862
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: ABBOTT Francis
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA63-3
Last updated: 10th March 2012

In any further Correspondence on this subject, be good enough to quote the Register Number <1> 1/16/1.
General Post Office,
Edinburgh,

16th January 1862.

Sir,

I beg to Acknowledge the receipt of your letter of yesterday's date, and to assure you that the matter referred to therein shall receive my immediate and thorough investigation. I am obliged to you for bringing the irregularity under my notice.

I am, Sir, Your obediant Servant
F Abbott
Secretary.

H. Fox Talbot Esq
Millburn Tower<2>
Gogar
Edinburgh.

ON HER MAJESTY’S SERVICE.
General Post Office,
Edinburgh.
H. Fox Talbot Esq
Millburn Tower
Gogar
near Edinburgh
OFFICIAL PAID S O JA 16 62 EDINBURGH [postmark]


Notes:

1. printed request followed by hand written reference number

2. Millburn Tower, Gogar, just west of Edinburgh; the Talbot family made it their northern home from June 1861 to November 1863. It is particularly important because WHFT conducted many of his photoglyphic engraving experiments there. The house had a rich history. Built for Sir Robert Liston (1742-1836), an 1805 design by Benjamin Latrobe for a round building was contemplated but in 1806 a small house was built to the design of William Atkinson (1773-1839), best known for Sir Walter Scott’s Abbotsford. The distinctive Gothic exterior was raised in 1815 and an additional extension built in 1821. Liston had been ambassador to the United States and maintained a warm Anglo-American relationship in the years 1796-1800. His wife, the botanist Henrietta Liston, née Marchant (1751-1828) designed a lavish American garden, sadly largely gone by the time the Talbots rented the house .

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