London
8 Chapel Street
Grovsr Square
Friday
My dear Talbot
You promised a photograph of your phiz.<1> for our Harrow Collection now at Groves’s<2> – & all but completed as far as it can be. You will have half a dozen photographs to bear your company, tho’ I regret not such an engraving as that of our friend & schoolfellow Scrope<3> – Pray make haste – while the sun shines – if it does or ever will!
Yrs Sincly
C. S. Long
Notes:
1. The use of phiz here for a portrait is very interesting, for it might be a reference to Talbot’s English Etymologies (London: J. Murray, 1847), where he defines the word on pp. 423 & 429. WHFT's portrait, if given, has not been traced.
2. This boarding house, a former rectory, dates to 1819, although the present building was erected after a fire in 1833. It passed from private ownership to the Governors in 1901.
3. George Julius Duncombe Poulett Scrope (1797–1876), MP & scientist.