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Document number: 08685
Date: 12 Apr 1863
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: BREWSTER David
Collection: National Science and Media Museum, Bradford
Collection number: 1937-5423
Collection 2: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection (envelope)
Collection number 2 historic: Acc 21755 (envelope)
Last updated: 15th November 2012

Dear Mr Talbot,

I will thank you to let me know where I can find your views on Spectral Analysis. <1>

I intend to send to the Co Academy of Sciences <2> a Notice on what I have done on the subject, and would like to mention your Paper.

I am, Ever Most Truly yrs
D Brewster

Portobello <3>
23 Brighton Place
April 12th 1863

[envelope:]
Henry Fox Talbot Esqre.
11 Great Stuart Street
Edinr.

Notes:

1. W. H. F. Talbot, ‘Some Experiments on Coloured Flames’, Edinburgh Journal of Science, v. 5, no. 1, June 1826, pp. 77–82; ‘Remarks on Chemical Changes of Colour’, Philosophical Magazine s. 3, v. 2, no. 11, May 1833, pp. 359–60; ‘Facts relating to Optical Science, No. I’, Philosophical Magazine s. 3, v. 4, no. 20, February 1834, pp. 112–14; ‘Facts relating to Optical Science, No. III’, Philosophical Magazine s. 3, v. 9, no. 51, July 1836, pp. 1–4.

2. The French Académie des Sciences.

3. On the Firth of Forth, about four miles northeast of the centre of Edinburgh.