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Document number: 8687
Date: 17 Apr 1863
Postmark: Edinburgh 17 Apr 1863
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: SMYTH Charles Piazzi
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: Acc 21760 (envelope)
Last updated: 20th November 2012

1 HILLSIDE CRESCENT
EDINBURGH

April 17 [in another hand: 1863]

Dear Sir,

The Strasburg Cathedral is certainly a very [illegible] plate, with magnifier as well as naked eye.

The 2 positives you have of Mt Guajara, are intended if you please for your kind acceptance, not for loan only. The positive which you put on the copper plate, is the one required as a complement to that which the Stationery Office is working from: and it is distinguishable by the Mountain being on rather a smaller scale than on the other, viz. the Stationery Office edition, & your steel plate picture.

I duly note your instructions for the small positive still to be made, & remain

Yours very truly
C. Piazzi Smyth

[envelope:]
H. Fox Talbot Esqr. F.R.S.
&c &c &c
11 Gt. Stuart Street
Edinburgh

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