[engraved address:]
45 & 47, Howard Street,
Glasgow

15^th Nov: 1862

Sir,

I beg to intimate that I have supplied to you the Unmounted Views of Egypt & Palestine on the express understanding that they are for your own private use, and that you will make no use of them to reproduce them in any other shape or form without my sanction. Requesting you to furnish me with a guarantee to this effect,

I am, Yours Truly,
W^m MacKenzie

[illegible]

H. F. Talbot, Esq.
Millin [sic] Tower,
n^r Ratho.

[envelope:]
[blindstamp:]
William Mackenzie
Publisher
Glasgow

H. F. Talbot,Esq.
Millin [sic] Tower,
^near Ratho
^via Edinbrugh