My Dear Mr Talbot,
Having been in the Highlands for several weeks, I have just received your kind letter of the 7th. <1> Had I been able to go to Bath, <2> it would have given me the greatest pleasure to renew the pleasant days I spent under your Roof at the time of the Bristol meeting. <3> Mr Calvert Jones <4> very kindly invited us to his house, but University and other business prevented me from accepting his hospitality.
We look forward with much pleasure to your return to Edinr <5> in Winter.
I am, Ever Most Truly yrs
D Brewster
Belleville <6>Kingussie
Septr 10th 1864
Notes:
1. Not traced.
2. For the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
3. Of the British Association for the Advancement of Science in 1836.
4. Rev Calvert Richard Jones (1802–1877), Welsh painter & photographer.
5. Talbot now owned 13 Great Stuart Street, Edinburgh, frequent home of the Talbots from 1863-1871.
6. Brewster’s son Henry had inherited the estate of Belville, near Kingussie, Inverness-shire [see Doc. No: 02719] in 1862. See Doc. No: 08688.