Monday
My Dear Henry
The weather is most deplorable – I don’t wonder it has cut short your tour. As soon as you return I hope you will order some more of No 1 – Pencil of Nature <1> It is so much wanted for explanation. The 3 in Tarrants <2>’ [sic] possession I am promised tomorrow – Longman <3> is crying out for them. No 2 is the least popular. On the whole the Pencil of Nature is more liked than the views in Scotland, <4> but the latter have served admirably to make the former more known. I hope you received my two letters directed to York, one to Lancaster & one to Liverpool
Affly yrs
E F
31. Sackville Street
[envelope:]
H. Fox Talbot Er.
Post Office
Clifton
Notes:
1. WHFT, The Pencil of Nature (London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, June 1844–April 1846 [issued in six fascicles])
2. Alfred Tarrant, London bookbinder.
3. Thomas Longman (1804–1879), publisher, London.
4. WHFT, Sun Pictures in Scotland (London: Published by subscription in 1845).