112 Gloucester Terrace <1>
Hyde Park.
Tuesday
My dear Henry
I do not like to give up all thoughts of your accompanying Mrs Talbot and your daughters <2> next week, when I hope we shall have the pleasure of their company at Penllergare <3> – I have been reading your description of your mode of printing in the Photographic news <4> and think you might practise it, just as well at Penllergare, with the additional advantage of my assistance!!! being, as we are, zealous photographers, (an everyday occupation at Penllergare) we have several hands and most willing ones at your service, delighted to learn from you, and to assist, if I am not too bold in so saying, in helping you to bring out a perfect print for the next number. We long to see your method of accomplishing, what is so great a desideratum in the charming art: and when you see how zealous we are, I think you will consider us worth teaching!
Believe me your affte cousin
E. Llewelyn
[envelope:]
Henry Fox Talbot Esr.
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Notes:
1. London.
2. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife and the daughters: Ela Theresa Talbot (1835–1893), WHFT’s 1st daughter, Rosamond Constance ‘Monie’ Talbot (1837–1906), artist & WHFT’s 2nd daughter, and Matilda Caroline Gilchrist-Clark, ‘Tilly’, née Talbot (1839–1927), WHFT’s 3rd daughter.
3. Penllergaer, Glamorgan, 5 mi E of Loughor: home of the Llewelyn family.
4. ‘Description of Mr Fox Talbot’s New Process of Photoglyphic Engraving’, Photographic News, v. 1 no. 7, 22 October 1858, pp. 73-75.