Dear Sir,
As I expect to be in London on the 24th of this month, I am anxious to learn where you are, at present, residing, that I may have some chance of meeting with you.
I have been requested [to] write an Article in the North British Review <1> on the Talbotype alone, <2> & would be glad to receive any documents, or information that you wish to be referred to.
I am, Dear Sir Ever Most Truly yrs
D Brewster
St Leonards College
St Andrews
Feby 20th 1847
P.S. My address in London will be 226 Piccadilly.
Notes:
1. At the time, a journal of the Free Church. For Brewster’s contribution to this, see entry for him in.
2. The North British Review was originally a journal of the Free Church of Scotland. Brewster’s "Article VIII - Photography" was published in v. 7 no. 14, August 1847, pp. 465-504, and was essentially a collected book review that he used to summarise the history and current state of photography. His sections were: 1. Researches on Light; An Examination of all the Phenomena connected with the Chemical and Molecular Changes produced by the influences of the Solar Rays, embracing all the known Photographic Processes, and new Discoveries in the Art. By Robert Hunt, Secretary to the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society. Pp. 304. London, 1844. / 2. A Treatise on the Forces which produce the Organization of Plants; with an Appendix containing several Memoirs on Capillary Attraction, Electricity, and the Chemical Action of Light. By John William Draper, M.D., Professor of Chemistry in the University of New York. royal 4to, pp. 324. New York, 1844. / 3. Nouvelles Instructions sur l’usage du Daguerreotype. Par Charles Chevalier. Paris, 1841. / 4. Mélanges Photographiques. Complement des nouvelles Instructions sur l’usage du Daguereotype. Pp. 128. Paris, 1844. /5. The Pencil of Nature. By Henry Fox Talbot, Esq., F.R.S., &c., &c. Nos. I., II., III., IV., V. London, 1844. / 6. Traité de Photographie, contenant tous les perfectionnements trouvée jusqu’à ce jour, appareil panoramique, différences des foyers, gravure Fizeau, &c. Par Lerebours et Secretans, Opticiens de l’Observatoire, et de lat Marine. 5me. Edit. Pp. 268. Paris, Octobre 1846. / 7. Des Papiers Photographiques, Procédés de M. Blanquart-Evrard et autres, avec Notes de N.P. Lerebours. P. 31. Paris, Mar. 1847. / 8. Excursions Daguerriennes. Collection de 114 Planches, représentant les vues et les monumens les plus remarquables du Globe. 2 Vols.