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Document number: 6491
Date: 27 Oct 1851
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: BREWSTER David
Collection: National Science and Media Museum, Bradford
Collection number: 1937-4992
Last updated: 18th February 2012

Dear Mr Talbot,

I write this hurried note to say that my Daughter <1> and I left London with the full intention of availing ourselves of your kind invitation to Lacock Abbey on the 3d. Novr, by returning from Asbury Park Coventry where we shall be till Friday; but we yesterday received a letter from my Son <2> who is now in Scotland on leave from his Regt in Malta, and whose movements make it necessary that we shd return as soon as we possibly can. It is a great disappointment to us that any thing shd have occurred to have deprived us of the pleasure of seeing you and Mrs Talbot. <3>

I entirely agree with you in all you say about the treatment you have received, <4> but unless you have other information than I have, which involves the Members of the Academy of the Sciences <5> in the matter, I suppose that the mere publishing of Mr Everard's<6> paper in the Comptes Rendus <7> does not make them responsible for its contents.

I am, Ever Most Truly yrs
D Brewster

Leamington <8>
Octr 27th 1851

H.F. Talbot Esqr


Notes:

1. 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).

2. Captain Henry Brewster. See Graham Smith, ‘A Group of Early Scottish Calotypes’, The Princeton University Library Chronicle, v. 46, no. 1, Autumn 1984, pp. 81–94.

3. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife.

4. See Doc. No: 06484.

5. The French Académie des Sciences.

6. Louis-Désiré Blanquart-Évrard (1802–1872), photographer.

7. Louis Desiré Blanquart-Évrard, ‘Photographie sur papier. Impression photographique’, Comptes Rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’ de l’Académie des Sciences v. 32, no. 15, 14 April 1851; v. 32, no. 17, 28 April 1851. This describes a faster modification of Talbot’s process, but calls it a new process: ‘Voici en quoi consiste le nouveau procédé’ [‘This is what the new process consists of’].

8. Royal Leamington Spa, near Warwick, southwest of Birmingham. The Brewsters had stayed there in 1842.

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