TALBOT3819

Brighton
27 Feb.^y

My Dear Henry

I am charmed to hear of my third little Grand daughter & of Constance’s ¹ safety which I hope to witness soon as I shall be in town Saturday Pray come & see us that Evening. I was quite surprized at your making the secret of the Photogenic Drawing ² known, it precludes entirely all chance of your making your fortune by selling it as M. Daguerre ³ intended or getting a patent. How mad he must be now you have made it public that he did not accept the Emperor of Russia’s ⁴ handsome offer?

At any rate your name will be disseminated over Europe, & M. Daguerre has done more for your ambition than your own countrymen. It has already been compared to the Young & Champollion controversy. ⁵

Bimbo ⁶ has already found a wife husband for the jungling he says he shall marry Ela ⁷ & give the little one to his brother. Horatia ⁸ proposes her name should be Iodine in honor of your discovery, it would be pretty & might be still more softened into Ioline. Matilda ⁹ has taken a warm interest in your successes which shows she is more au courant ¹⁰ than I thought she was. She thinks Ela quite beautiful & only hopes she may grow up half as pretty

Aff^y Y^rs
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