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Document number: 3835
Date: 12 Mar 1839
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: QUETELET Lambert Adolphe Jacques
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 1st September 2003

Académie Royale
des Sciences et Belles-Lettres
DE BRUXELLES.
Bruxelles,

le 12 Mars 1839.

Monsieur

L’Académie Royale de Bruxelles a reçu l’ouvrage intitutlé: Some account of the act of photogenic drawing, <1> que vous avez bien voulu lui faire parvenir s Sensible à cet hommage l’Académie m’a chargé de vous présenter ses remerciments et elle a ordonné en même temps que cet ouvrage serait deposé dans sa bibliothèque et mentionné dans le bulletin.

Agréez, je vous prie, Monsieur, l’expression de mes sentiments très distingués

Le Secrétaire Perpétuel de l’Académie
Quetelet

A Monsieur Henry Fox Talbot, Membre de la Société Royale de Londres

Translation:

Académie Royale
des Sciences et Belles-Lettres
DE BRUXELLES.
Brussels,

12 March 1839.

Sir

The Royal Academy of Brussels has received the work entitled: Some account of the act of photogenic drawing, which you have kindly sent to it s Appreciative of this homage, the Academy has asked me to present you with its thanks, and it has ordered at the same time that this work be deposited in its library and mentioned in the bulletin.

Please accept, Sir, my sincere regards

The Permanent Secretary of the Academy
Quetelet

To Mr Henry Fox Talbot, Member of the Royal Society of London

Notes:

1. WHFT, ‘Some Account of the Art of Photogenic Drawing’, Philosophical Magazine s.3 v.14 n.8, 9 February 1839, pp.196–208.

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