Laycock Abbey
25th August
My Dear Henry
I came in to wish you good by [sic], but behold the bird was flown. I wanted to remind you that I shall want some of No 5 <1> - as well as the others, to take into Norfolk. Pray be very cautious with those Railroad Sharks. Give me a petit mot <2> now & then - I shall want to know how the affair is going on
affly yrs
E F
Perhaps they think that as you are a philosopher you will be careless in business, & they may cheat with impunity. That was an idea of M. de Bassano's <3>
Notes:
1. WHFT, The Pencil of Nature (London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, June 1844-April 1846 [issued in six fascicles]) [See Doc. No: 05489].
2. A little word.
3. Hugues Antoine Joseph Eugène Maret, Marquis de Bassano (1806-1889), photographic entrepreneur, Paris.