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Document number: 7743
Date: 11 Nov 1858
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: BROOKER Thomas
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA58-103
Last updated: 3rd August 2010

{printed notepaper:]
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).

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