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Document number: 6799
Date: 19 May 1853
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: LLEWELYN Emma Thomasina, née Talbot
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 9th February 2015

Penllergare
May 19th 1853

My dear Cousin Henry

I send you a portrait of Christopher’s three girls <1> made on a winter’s day, in our Conservatory by Mr Llewelyn <2> – do pray send me in return, one of your children, made by yourself – I have long wished to see the originals, but their shadows are yet more easily conveyed<3>

Believe me ever Your most affte cousin
Emma Llewelyn –


Notes:

1. Emily Charlotte (1840-1918); Bertha Isabella (1841-1911), later married John Fletcher (1827-1903), JP; and Olivia 'Olive' (1842-1894), the daughters of Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (1803–1890), immensely wealthy landowner, mathematician & politician; WHFT’s Welsh cousin.

2. John Dillwyn Llewelyn (1810–1882), Welsh photographer, JP & High Sheriff.

2. WHFT's first (and private) name for photography was sciagraphy, replaced by the term photogenic drawing, which he appears to have used for the first time in January 1839. In his notebook M, dated on the flyleaf "Lacock 4th December 1834" but in an entry immediately after 28 February 1835, he first conceived of the process of making a print from a negative, recording that "in the Photogenic or Sciagraphic process, if the paper is transparent, the first drawing may serve as an object, to produce a second drawing, in which the lights and shadows would be reversed. Fox Talbot Collection, The British Library, London.

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