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Document number: 03772
Date: 23 Jan 1839
Dating: reply to Doc no 03842
Recipient: HOOKER William Jackson
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Collection number: EL 13.140
Last updated: 25th February 2010

44 Queen Ann St <1>
Janry 23rd

Dear Sir

I send you herewith another pattern of lace, delineated in the same way <2> – If you like to take it to Glasgow with you, to show it to some of the manufacturers, pray do so, & let me have it again afterwards – <3>

Yours truly
H. F. Talbot

Notes:

1. 44 Queen Ann Street: London home of the Mundy family and a frequent base for WHFT.

2. By WHFT’s process of photogenic drawing.

3. See Doc. No: 03842 of 20 March 1839. The fact that WHFT wanted it back indicates just how few examples he had available at the start of the first public year of photography. Many were from his earliest work and the winter weather was especially gloomy in 1839, cutting him off from the sunlight essential to producing more.