7 Molesworth Terrace
Stoke. Jany 17th 1854
Dear Sir
I should have long since thanked you for your very kind note & valuable contributions to our Photographic Exhibition of the 24th; had the Admiralty not recently employed me in Essex – I have now however the pleasure of having to convey to you the thanks of the Devon & Cornwall Photographic Society for your valuable “engravings” & start to distribute them according to your wishes –
believe me dear Sir Your’s truly & obliged
Robt. A E Scott
[envelope:]
The Honble
H. F. Talbot
Greta Bank
Kewsick
Cumberland
[added on verso in WHFT's hand:] January 1854