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Document number: 6644
Date: 13 Jun 1852
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: PARSONS William
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA52-038
Last updated: 1st September 2003

13 Connaught Place

June 13th 1852

Dear Talbot

I have been so hampered as chairman of one Lords Committee, and a member of two others, that I have been unable as yet to call upon Mr Charles Eastlake. <1> He was here however last night and I saw him for a moment, and find he has already written to you. I shall be happy to consult, and cooperate with him. We are very anxious about the prospect of Photographing the Cuneiform inscriptions in the British Museum; and today yesterday I brought the subject again before the Trustees: when you are next in town I should be very glad to accompany you to the British Museum and hope your engagements and mine may permit it. This week every day is preoccupied.

As to my conversation with Brewster <2> I recollect I mentioned what I have heard about the Copley medal, but not from any authority: a more private conversation can scarcely be rendered quite faithfully unless you discover some way of Photographing it.

Truly yrs

Rosse


Notes:

1. Sir Charles Lock Eastlake (1793–1865), painter.

2. Sir David Brewster (1781–1868), Scottish scientist & journalist.

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