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Document number: 6928
Date: 03 Mar 1854
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: BARCLAY George
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA54-9
Last updated: 25th March 2012

22 Gerrard St Soho
March 3 1854

Sir

I forward simultaneously with this the 20 Steel Plates and proofs & also proofs from 3 Steel plates recd on Monday. I have not yet recd those advised by a letter of todays post –

There seems to be a successful approach to the effect of an aquatint especialy [sic] in the darkest – would not an opake [sic] dust equally distributed over the surface & exposed to the light have the same effect as a gause [sic]

Most Respectfully yr obt St
Geo Barclay

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