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Document number: 4395
Date: 14 Dec 1841
Dating: received 22 Dec
Recipient: FUSS Paul Heinrich von
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: Russian Academy of Sciences St Petersburg
Collection number: 1/2-1842/12/16
Last updated: 28th April 2010

Londres 31 Sackville Street <1>
le 14 Décembre 1841

Monsieur

J’ai l’honneur d’envoyer à l’Académie Impériale des Sciences, quelques exemplaires de mon procédé Calotype, et de mes autres procédés photogéniques. Si cela peut interesser l’Académie, j’aurai l’honneur de lui envoyer bientôt des exemplaires en plus grand nombre.

Agréez Monsieur l’expression de toute ma considération.
H. Fox Talbot
Membre de la Société Royale de Londres

Translation:

London 31 Sackville Street
14 December 1841

Dear Sir,

I have the honour of sending some examples of my Calotype process, and of my other photogenic processes, to the Imperial Academy of Sciences. If this is of interest to the Academy, it will be my pleasure to send a greater number of examples shortly.

Accept, Sir, all my regards.
H. Fox Talbot
Member of the Royal Society of London

Notes:

1. 31 Sackville Street, London residence of the Feildings, often used as a London base by WHFT.