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Document number: 3851
Date: 30 Mar 1839
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: LUBBOCK John William
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA39-027
Last updated: 1st September 2003

30 March 39

Dear Sir,

I do not bind the Comptes Rendus, <1> if you wish me to send you in the country any other extracts relating xsm to Daguerre, <2> only tell me.

I presume their is a double decomposition, <3> Hyposulphite Soda & Chloride silver become Hyposulphite Silver & Chloride Sodium

Yours very truly,

J W Lubbock

Notes:

1. Comptes Rendus hebdomadaires des séances de l’ de l’Académie des Sciences.

2. Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787–1851), French artist, showman & inventor.

3. That is, in the action of hypo on exposed photogenic drawings.

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