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Document number: 3624
Date: Mar 1876
Dating: Horwood discovery 1874, published 1876; before Weds 22 Mar meeting
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: VAUX William Sandys Wright
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 1st September 2003

<manuscript on printed form letter>

Royal Society of Literature.

The Society will meet on Wednesday March 22nd at 8 p.m. precisely, when Mr A. J. Horwood <1> will exhibit and describe “John Miltons Autograph Common-Place Book” about to be published by the Autotype process. <2>

W. S. W. VAUX,
Secretary.

No. 4, St. Martin’s Place,
Trafalgar Square.

H. Fox Talbot Esq
&c &c


Notes:

1. A. J. Horwood, barrister-at-law.

2. Autotypes were permanent carbon photographic prints that were used in British book illustration from the late 1860s. The Autotype Company of London sold licenses and materials and also produced quantities of prints on request. Some were sold through their Autotype Fine Art Gallery and the operation lasted until the 1950s.

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