My Dear Sir
Many thanks for your kind offer <1> of a paper communication on the Photoglyph <2>. The Fern is admirably done. I shall be glad to have the use of the Steel plates<.> Will you kindly give me the title of your Communication at once as I want to insert it in the Botanical Society’s Billet, <3> so that it may be read there on Thursday the 11th before being printed as the Insertn in the Society’s Transactions as was done in the case of your previous Photoglyphs.
I am Yours Sincerely
J. H. Balfour
27 Inverleith Row
3 June 1863
[envelope:]
H. F. Talbot Esq
Millburn Tower
Hermiston
Notes:
1. See Doc. No: 08715, to which this is the reply.
2. This was published as "Photoglyphic Engraving of a Fern" in the Transactions of the Botanical Society (Edinburgh), v. 7, June 1863, pl. 14, p. 559. WHFT had earlier published in the same journal "Young Dragon trees, near Orotava, Teneriffe," March 1859, pl. 6.
3. The printed summary for the meeting - a newsletter.