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Document number: 140
Date: 1865
Dating: 1865 assumed from Doc nos 08980 & 08986
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: MOFFAT John
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 29th June 2015

[printed notepaper:]
Photographic Establishment.
103 Princes Street.
Edinburgh 18__

H. Fox Talbot Esq

Sir

I send you the enlargement from the small transparency left with me some time since–

It has not turned out as well as I shd have liked, but it may do for your experimenting purposes – In enlarging there seems to be a difficulty in retaining the softness of tone & at the same time the sharpness of the original

I am Sir Your obt sert
John Moffat

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