Dear Sir,
I address this note to you at Barrow House, <1> trusting that you are comfortably and happily settled in what appeared to us a Paradise.
As you are now so near Edinr, I trust you will give us your Countenance at the Association, <2> and communicate some of your interesting researches to the Sections.
You know it is the custom of these meetings to receive Members as Guests into private Houses. If you have no objection to be thus located the Committee in Edinr wd arrange this in the most agreeable manner for you. Would it not be a good plan if Mrs Talbot <3> were to accompany you and pay us a visit here after the meeting, and shew Mrs Talbot some of our Scotch Scenery, the best of which is not very far from this.
I will attend to your suggestion about the organisation of Science. A great part of my address indeed will relate to this topic.
My Daughter <4> desires her kindest regard to Mrs Talbot, with many thanks for her new letter.
I am Dear Sir Ever Most Truly yrs
D Brewster
St Leonard's College
St Andrews
July 2d 1850
H. Fox Talbot Esqr
Notes:
1. See Doc. No: 06330.
2. British Association for the Advancement of Science.
3. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife.
4. Margaret Maria (b. 1823), who became Mrs Gordon and published a memoir of her father: The Home Life of Sir David Brewster (Edinburgh: Edmonston and Douglas, 1869).