Crown Buildings, 188 Fleet St,
London, E.C.
July 30 1877
H. F Talbot EsqLacock Abbey
Chippenham
Dear Sir
We beg to apologise for delay in replying to your favour <1> of the 20th – the gentleman who has had the management of the work in question is away in Scotland – he will be home in a few days – and will reply to you – meantime we thank you for the offer to print 1000 maps – which would doubtless prove a great attraction to the book <2> – and we shall feel greatly obliged by the contribution.
We are Dear Sir Yours very truly
S Low Marston & Co
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.