[printed letterhead]
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington
Crown Buildings
188, Fleet Street
London

June 1^st 1877

Dear Sir,

We are obliged to you for your kind favour of yesterday we will communicate with the Editor M^r Thomson and answer you inquires as soon as possible ^<1>

Yours faithfully
Sampson Low & Co
per [?-initials]

H. Fox Talbot Esq
Laycock Abbey
N^r Chippenham

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Notes:

1. 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.