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Document number: 3427
Date: Tue May 1837
Dating: date assumed - late Apr/early May - Harley Street address
Recipient: WHEATSTONE Charles
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: Getty / Getty Research Institute Library Los Angeles
Collection number: 860749
Last updated: 22nd December 2010

65 Harley St <1>
Tuesday

Dear Sir

My mother <2> wishes to know whether your experiments tomorrow evening, are at King’s College, or at your house in Conduit St– The hour we suppose to be Eight O’clock–

The Marquis of Lansdowne <3> having expressed a wish to see the experiments, I have answered for you that I was sure you would be very glad to see him, if he is able to come.

Believe me Yours very truly
H. F. Talbot

C. Wheatstone Esq –
20 Conduit St

Notes:

1. Harley Street, London.

2. Lady Elisabeth Theresa Feilding, née Fox Strangways, first m Talbot (1773–1846), WHFT’s mother.

3. Henry Petty Fitzmaurice, 3rd Marquess of Lansdowne (1780–1863), MP, WHFT’s uncle.

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