[printed letterhead]
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington
Crown Buildings
188, Fleet Street
London
June 5th 1877
Dear Sir,
We have heard from our Editor and we think it will simplify matters if we send you his letter. We will also send you a proof of what he has written as soon as we can get it printed (it is now in printer’s hands). You will then be able to supplement or correct his note and perhaps also kindly add the table he refers to which would be printed either in the Appendix or at the end of the part it refers to. We should prefer keeping any matter you might be good enough to favour us with <1> separate in some way, as, being from yourself, & we trust you wd allow us to mention that, it would be of great value.
We are Sir Yours faithfully
Sampson Low & Co
per[?-initials]
Fox Talbot Esq
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham
Notes:
1. WHFT supplied a manuscript and two original photoglyphic engravings for inclusion in John Thomson, editor, A History and Handbook of Photography, Translated from the French of Gaston Tissandier, second and revised edition, with an Appendix by the Late Henry Fox Talbot (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1878). A page of the original manuscript is reproduced in Larry J Schaaf, Sun Pictures Catalogue Twelve: Talbot and Photogravure (New York: Hans P. Kraus, Jr, 1987), appendix. pp. 357–367.