TALBOT3108

21 Sumner Place
S W ¹

January 20^h 1874

Dear Sir

I fear I must be under a misapprehension in regard to a letter which I supposed myself to have sent you on the 6^th of last month. ² As it should have formed one of several to the principal correspondents of my late father, ³ it is also possible that I missent it, or that your reply may have been mis sent or lost. I venture now to enclose a second Circular ⁴ on the former assumption.

Yours faithfully
J Herschel

P.S.
I am unhappily restricted, under medical advice, to the strictest economy in the matter of hand-writing.

W.H. Fox Talbot Esq. L.L.D. F.R.S. F.L.S. &c
Lacock Abbey. Chippenham

[envelope:]⁵
H. Fox Talbot. Esq.
British Museum
Bloomsbury
W.C.

Lacock Abbey
Chippenham

Lacock Abbey
Nr Chippenham
[note added in pencil on verso in WHFT's hand:] Apr 9, 74