21 Sumner Place
S W <1>
January 20h 1874
Dear Sir
I fear I must be under a misapprehension in regard to a letter which I supposed myself to have sent you on the 6th of last month. <2> As it should have formed one of several to the principal correspondents of my late father, <3> it is also possible that I missent it, or that your reply may have been mis sent or lost. I venture now to enclose a second Circular <4> on the former assumption.
Yours faithfully
J Herschel
I am unhappily restricted, under medical advice, to the strictest economy in the matter of hand-writing. W.H. Fox Talbot Esq. L.L.D. F.R.S. F.L.S. &c
Lacock Abbey. Chippenham
[envelope:]<5>
H. Fox Talbot. Esq.
British Museum
Bloomsbury
W.C.
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Lacock Abbey
Nr Chippenham
[note added in pencil on verso in WHFT's hand:] Apr 9, 74
Notes:
1. London.
2. See Doc. No: 00290.
3. Sir John Frederick William Herschel (1792–1871), astronomer & scientist.
4. See Doc. No: 03112.
5. There are two letters from Capt Herschel, and two envelopes, for this day [see also Doc. No: 03112]. However, the present one has two stamps, reflecting the enclosure of the circular.