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Document number: 9395
Date: 30 Jul 1868
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: WELLS Thomas Spencer
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: Acc no 21989 (envelope only)
Last updated: 10th October 2014

[printed notepaper:]
3, Upper Grosvenor Street,
Grosvenor Square,
London. W.

July 30 1868

Sir

As a friend of your old acquaintance the late Revd G. Bridges <1> I venture to trouble you to know where I can obtain a photographic likeness of yourself – application having been made to me for one for a collection in Paris of the “premieres pères de la Photographie”

I am Sir Your vy Try
J Spencer Wells

H. Fox Talbot Esq

[envelope:]
Hy Fox Talbot Esr> F.R.S.
Laycock Abbey
Wilts
[added by WHFT upper left corner recto:]
Mr Wells, Grosvenor St.

Notes:

1. Rev George Wilson Bridges (1788–1863), photographer & traveller.