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Document number: 6721
Date: Wed 1853
Dating: 1853?
Recipient: GROVE William Robert
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: Royal Society, London
Last updated: 11th July 2010

Athenĉum <1>
Wedny Evg

Dear Grove

The correspondence <2> is published in page 4 of the Times of August 13 / 52

I have marked the page for you, and desired the waiter <3> to keep the volume in readiness, in case you wish to look at it.

I leave Town for some weeks on Friday – My address will be Greta bank <4>
Keswick

The specifications <5> contain many matters which are irrelevant to the present question, I propose therefore to draw up some remarks and send them to you which may tend to Elucidate the subject.

Yours Truly
H. F. Talbot


Notes:

1. The Athenĉum and (London) Literary Chronicle, London.

2. At the Athenĉum Club.

3. Greta Bank, Cumberland, near Keswick. Talbot was there from the end of August 1853 [see Doc. No: 06841 concerning his plans for the journey north] and stayed there, perhaps intermittently, until November and perhaps even December 1853.

4. This was the published correspondence between William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse (1800–1867), astronomer & MP, as President of the Royal Society of London, and Talbot, in which Talbot threw open the patent-rights on his Calotype process as far as amateur photographers were concerned. See Doc. No: 06668.

5. Of the Calotype process.

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