188 Fleet St
London
August 1/77
Dear Sir,
In reply to yours <1> we beg to say that we shall be very glad indeed to have any specimens of your plates that you like to send us. Your printer sent some little time back a ‘size’ of the plate paper which we signed and returned as being correct. The writer <2> who has the management of the preparing of work on photography is away in Scotland and so does not know if you have yet sent the matter for your appendix to the work or not. If it is not sent we shall be obliged if you will kindly send it.
We are Sir Yours faithfully
Sampson Low Marston & Coper R. B. Marston
Notes:
1. Letter not located.
2. WHFT supplied a manuscript and two original photoglyphic engravings for inclusion in John Thomson, editor, A History and Handbook of Photography, Translated from the French of Gaston Tissandier, second and revised edition, with an Appendix by the Late Henry Fox Talbot (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878). A page of the original manuscript is reproduced in Larry J Schaaf, Sun Pictures Catalogue Twelve: Talbot and Photogravure (New York: Hans P. Kraus, Jr, 1987), appendix. pp. 357–367.