TALBOT3779

44 Q. Ann S^{t 1}
Tuesday

Dear Sir

The Editors of the 2 London principal scientific newspapers, “the Athenæum” & “the Literary Gazette” have both taken up with zeal (much more than I could have expected) the subject of my discovery of Photogenic Drawing. ² The Editor of the Athenæum has applied to me this morning for leave to publish in full, the paper which will be read on Thursday at the R^l Society ³ because, he observes, no time ought to be lost, the Parisian invention ⁴ having got the start of 3 weeks – I replied to him that a resolution of the Council would be necessary to that effect, & there is no council before Thursday week, but that I would enquire of the members beforehand if they would consent to this temporary suspension of the rules, without prejudice to the paper being afterwards printed in the Transactions. ⁵ In case I receive the assent of the majority of the council, it will then be only necessary to wait for a formal vote.

I hope you for one will accede to this, under the peculiar circumstances

Believe me Dear Sir Yours vy truly
H. F. Talbot

Sir J. Herschel Bar^t
&c &c &c
Slough