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Document number: 5216
Date: Tue May 1837
Dating: May 1837? see Doc no 03427
Watermark: 1834
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: WHEATSTONE Charles
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number: 28869
Collection number historic: LAM-113
Last updated: 19th January 2012

20 Conduit St
Tuesday

Dear Sir

The experiments will be tried tomorrow evening at King’s College, and eight o’clock is the hour appointed. I shall be most happy to show them to the Marquis of Lansdowne <1> or to any other friend whom you may honour me by bringing.

I remain dear Sir Very truly yours
C. Wheatstone

Notes:

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

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