[engraved notepaper:]
Copper & Steel Plate Printing Office,
78 Margaret St. Cavendish Sq^re W.

6 Nov^r 1858

Sir

I have to take 100 pr^fs upon india of each of the small plates before the writing is put in that will excuse some little delay ^<1> As soon as done pr^fs shall be forwarded to you I have had some difficulty in obtaining the highly polished plates Three times I have returned them I hope to have them back to day when they shall be forwarded.

I am Y^r Ob^t Ser^t
T Brooker

H Fox Talbot Esq

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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. The special proofs were for his private distribution to interested parties.