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.