31 Sackville St <1>
Dear Sir
As Mr Children <2> is out of town, I wish to know if you could let me have my paper “on Light”, <3> in order that I may publish it in the Philosophl Magazine <4> – Mr C. informed me that you took much interest in optical experiments, if you would like to see some of those I have described, I should have great pleasure in showing them to you any day this week, or the next, when you may be at leisure.
Believe me, dear sir, Yours very truly
H. F. Talbot
H.F. Talbot 1834 <5>
Notes:
1. 31 Sackville Street, London residence of the Feildings, often used as a London base by WHFT.
2. John George Children (1777–1852), librarian & scientist.
3. Possibly ‘Experiments on Light’, Philosophical Magazine, s. 3 v. 5, no. 29, November 1834, pp. 321–324.
4. Philosophical Magazine.
5. Written in another hand.