Bournemouth
Oct. 27 1876
Dear Sir
Absence from home for a month or 6 weeks will prevent me from complying immediately with the request contained in your obliging letter, <1> but on my return home I will see what I can do. In the meanwhile I wish to enquire whether you would like to have specimens of my Photoglyphic Engraving? <2>
This process which I first published in 1853, for the first time gave permanence to photographs, by the employment of printer’s ink –
address Post Office, Bournemouth
I remain Yours very Truly
H. Fox Talbot
Dr J. Nicol, Edinburgh
Notes:
1. See Doc. No: 00494.
2. WHFT sent photoglyphic engravings which were given eventually to the predecessor of the Royal Scottish Museum, National Museums of Scotland, but these have not been located.