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Document number: 6970
Date: 10 Mar 1865
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: VOGEL Hermann Wilhelm
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 1st September 2003

<printed column at left, in German, French and English, advertising the Berlin International Photographic Exhibition, May and June 1865>

Berlin

the Mars 10 1865. <sic>

Dr H. Vogel, President of the Berlin Photographic Society presents his compliments and would feel extremely obliged if

Sir Henry Fox Talbot F.R.S.

would kindly favour the Society’s forthcoming exhibition which <sic> a few specimens of his

photoglyphic engravings

Every contribution from the discoverer of photography could not fail to be highly appreciated by an intelligent public, long familiar with the famed discovery of Sir Henry Fox Talbot,

but until now deprived of the pleasure of admiring his works.

Sir H. W. Fox Talbot F.R.S.

The Society will take every possible care of the objects committed to their trust and will bear all the charges incurred by transmitting the specimens.

Mr Trübner 20 St Dunstans Hill London <C.?>, their agent, has been been <sic> fully instructed to the purpose