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Document number: 3767
Date: 1839
Dating: 1839 or later
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: BEOKER A
Collection: National Science and Media Museum, Bradford
Collection number: 1937-4808
Last updated: 11th February 2013

[embossed notepaper]: AB

Monsieur

Veuiellez être assez bon pour m’expédier les deux journaux en question en faisant suivre vos debours; aussitôt que j’aurai les journaux et que j’aurai un jour à perdre, je me rendrai auprès de M. Daguerre <1> et je ne manquerai pas de lui faire vos compliments. Les americains sont très enthousiastes pour tout ce qui leur plait et ils ont poussé l’art photographique a un bien haut degré.

Agréez, Monsieur, l’expression de ma plus parfaite considération.
A M Beoker

Translation:

Dear Sir

Please be good enough to send me the two newspapers in question, and follow them with a note of your costs; as soon as I have the newspapers, and I have a day to lose, I will go to Mr Daguerre and I will be sure to give him your compliments. Americans are very enthusiastic about everything they like, and they have carried forward photographic art to great heights.

Please accept, sir, my very sincere regards.
A. M. Beoker

Notes:

1. Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787–1851), French artist, showman & inventor