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Document number: 3768
Date: 1839
Recipient: UNIDENTIFIED
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: Hohere Graphische Bundeslehr und Versuchs Anstalt Vienna
Last updated: 1st September 2003

44 Queen Ann St

Dear Sir

I am very much obliged to you for lending me the interesting drawings of Lacock and other places in Wiltshire, which have afforded Mrs Talbot <1> and myself much pleasure in looking over. I return them with this note. With respect to Nature’s becoming her own miniature painter, I understand that Daguerre <2> has arrived at effects which are almost perfect.

I remain Dear Sir

Yours very truly

H. Fox Talbot


Notes:

1. Constance Talbot, née Mundy (1811–1880), WHFT’s wife.

2. Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787–1851), French artist, showman & inventor.

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