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Copper & Steel Plate Printing Office,
78 Margaret St. Cavendish Sqre W.
11 Novr 1858
Sir
By rail I have sent 20 of each of 5 plates Also prfs of each of the last plates. I also send you prfs of each of all the plates used for the Photographic News <1> Altogether 6,000 have been printed from them and I think Messrs Petter & G <2> are satisfied with the result. There was hardly time to do them still it being important I managed to do them
I also send 24 highly polished plates. I had to send them back three times hence the delay
Trusting you will be satisfied with the result
I am Yr Obt Sert
T Brooker
H Fox Talbot Esq
PS
I have reserved the last plate “Hall of Congress” in case it may be required.
Notes:
1. WHFT produced photoglyphic engraving prints to accompany George Lumley's articles on the subject, and included ‘Bridge over the Moldau, Prague’; ‘Palace of the Duc de Montpensier, Seville’; ‘The New Louvre, Paris’; ‘The Gate of the Cathedral of San Gregorio, Valladolid’; and ‘The Institute of France’. See ‘Description of Mr Fox Talbot’s New Process of Photoglyphic Engraving’, Photographic News, v. 1 no. 7, 22 October 1858, pp. 73–75; and v. 1 no. 10, 12 November 1858, pp. 114–115.
2. Petter & Galpin Co, London printers; George William Petter (1823-1888) and Thomas Dixon Galpin (1828-1910).