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Document number: 5880
Date: 06 Dec 1864
Recipient: TAYLOR John Traill
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: National Trust Collection, Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock
Collection number: J Blane Hunter Bequest
Last updated: 30th January 2012

Lacock Abbey Chippenham
Dec. 6th

Dr Sir

Can you oblige me by sending a copy of your last journal? My usual copy having failed to arrive- I trust you received the communication I sent yesterday relative to a photographic process.<1>

Yours truly
H.F. Talbot

please turn over

P.S. As there is no hurry about it, and I perceive I sent it too late to appear comfortably in your journal of this week perhaps it had better be deferred till next week which will also enable me to correct a proof of it. And as I anticipate that this will be the case, I enclose a paper with corrections which I wish to be made in my M.S.

Mr Taylor


Notes:

1.This was promptly published as "On Photography Without the Use of Silver", The British Journal of Photography, v. 11 no. 240, 9 December 1864, pp. 494-495; see Doc. No: 08909. This included Talbot's first explicit mention of the cyanotype publication accomplished by Anna Atkins; see Larry J. Schaaf, Sun Gardens: Victorian Photograms by Anna Atkins (New York: Aperture, 1985), p. 26.

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