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Document number: 7609
Date: Wed 21 Apr 1858
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: TALBOT Charles Henry
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: Acc no 21060 (envelope only)
Last updated: 24th June 2015

4 Atholl Cresct<1>
Wednesday April 21.

My dear Father

I am very glad this arrangement will do, as it saves me a great deal of trouble. I am going up to town by the express that leaves here 9.50. in the morning & shall therefore become visible to you latish lateish in the evening I don’t think I shall want anything more formideable than tea when I arrive. I was very much pleased with Melrose. Ivan Szabo <2> has taken Ela’s <3> & my photograph & the others are going on Friday. I will not forget the things you left.

Your affect son
Charles Talbot.

[envelope:]
H. Fox Talbot Esq
Athenӕum Club
London
SW

Notes:

1. Edinburgh.

2. Iván Szabó (1822–1858), a Hungarian photographer, learned his craft in St Andrews before setting up his studio in Edinburgh in 1857. He was considered one of the premier portrait photographers in Scotland. See Julie Lawson, "Iván Szabó: A Hungarian Photographer in Scotland," Shadow and Substance (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan: The Amorphous Institute Press, 1990), pp.17–21.

3. Ela Theresa Talbot (1835–1893), WHFT’s 1st daughter.

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