4 Atholl Crescent <1>
Jany 9th
Dr Sir
I request your acceptance of a few specimens of photographic Engraving upon Steel, <2> by a process of my invention –
I shall be absent from Edinburgh at the time of the next meeting of the R Socy <3> and for some time afterwards, therefore I will not Trouble you to send me an order of admission, of which I regret I was not able to avail myself hitherto owing to a severe cold. <4>
Believe me Dr Sir yours very Truly
H. F. Talbot
Notes:
1. In the West End of Edinburgh. The Talbots rented No 4 during the winter of 1855–1856 and again in 1857–1858.
2. See also Doc. No: 07244.
3. Royal Society of Edinburgh.
4. See Doc. No: 07200.