TALBOT3842

Glasgow.
Mar 20^th
1839

My dear Sir

I return your specimen of Photogenic drawing, which has interested the Glasgow people ¹ very much, especially the Muslin Manufacturers: – & it also excited great attention at a Scientific Meeting when Professor Gregory ² pronounced it to be “a discovery likely to be productive of most valuable results.”

The Duke of Bedford ³ has taken a great interest in this subject & without knowing that I had the pleasure of your acquaintance, has asked me if I can give him any further information about it. He has read all your papers in the Athenæum Lit^y Gazette ⁴ & I have directed him to the Echo du Monde Savant which I find contains a good deal about Daguerre’s ⁵ experiments.

I shall return your drawing through His Grace, ⁶ that he may have a sight of it: – & if you could kindly give him the inspection of any of your perfect drawings especially of a Plant or a building I should be greatly obliged to you. I hear that Bauer ⁷ of Kew has written on the subject but I have not seen what he has done.

Your’s most faithfully
W. J. Hooker.

The Duke is at Woburn. ⁸

H. F. Talbot Esq^re
44 Queen Ann Street
London.