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Document number: 6978
Date: 25 May 1854
Recipient: PETIT DE BILLIER Amélina
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA(AM)54-31
Last updated: 26th January 2013

Londres
25 Mai /54

Chère Mlle Amélina

Apprenant de vous que vous avez laissé vos yeux sur une muraille dans la vallée de Saint Jean, je me suis hâté de reparer cette perte autant que possible. Je vous envoye donc un paquet de 7 lunettes à choisir – celle à laquelle vous accorderez la préférence vous entourerez d’une ficelle et vous renverrez le paquet à Newman
Optician
122 Regent St <1>
en lui disant la monture que vous voulez pour vos lunettes, en acier par exemple, ou autrement.

Je crois que j’irai à Lacock demain et que je reviendrai ici avec les autres Mardi.

toujours à vous
H. F. Talbot


Translation:

London
25 May 1854

Dear Mlle Amélina,

Having learned that you left your spectacles on a wall in the Saint Jean valley, I made haste to repair this loss as soon as possible. I therefore send you a packet with 7 lenses to choose from – tie a piece of string around the one you prefer and return the package to Newman
Optician
122 Regent St
telling him which frame you want for your lenses, steel for example, or something else.

I believe that I will go to Lacock tomorrow and that I will come back here with the others on Tuesday.

yours ever
H. F. Talbot


Notes:

1. John Frederick Newman ( ca.1789–1860), philosophical instrument maker to the Royal Institution. At this time Nicolaas Henneman (1813–1898), Dutch, active in England; WHFT’s valet, then assistant; photographer, operated his photographic studio, the Sun Picture Rooms, from the same address in London.

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