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Document number: 6813
Date: 27 May 1853
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: LLEWELYN Emma Thomasina, née Talbot
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number: envelope 20799
Last updated: 16th February 2012

My dear Henry

We had studied the account of your Photographic Engraving as given in the Athæneum <1> [sic] with the greatest interest, so you may imagine how delighted Mr Llewelyn <2> is, with the very perfect and most wonderful, & promising specimens you have been so good as to send us –

He desires me to thank you very much for them – and to enclose you a specimen of his botanical records of a Wisteria which we had this Spring loaded with blossom inside the Conservatory – it being a plant we admire so much, as to give it 2 seasons & we have it again, as now, outside – but we have not room for such a splendid display as your 90 foot wall!

Pray do not forget your engagement to make portraits for me of your children – We find these records of passing time, invaluable & have many little daguerreotype <3> ones to mark the lapse of years – How superior are the paper portraits!

Believe me your very affte cousin
Emma Llewelyn

Penllergare
May 27th 1853

[envelope:]
Henry Fox Talbot Esqr.
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham


Notes:

1. WHFT,‘Photographic Engraving’, Athenaeum (London), no.1328, 9 April 1853, pp. 450-451, and ‘Photographic Engraving’, Athenaeum (London), no. 1329, 16 April 1853, pp. 481-482.

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

3. This seemed to be a family-wide problem, for the best portrait of WHFT is Antoine Claudet's daguerreotype.

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