TALBOT3843

London
21 March /39

Dear Sir

The muriatic ether forms no part of Daguerre’s grand process; ¹ but it is only a sensitive paper which he has set up in opposition to mine: not near so good I think.

The enclosed scrap ² is to illustrate what I call “Every man his own printer & publisher” – to enable poor authors to make facsimiles of their own handwriting–

It is a poor specimen, the hyposulphite having failed somehow to do its duty.

I have sent your photographs to Humboldt. ³– I [illegible deletion] send you a flower of heath, not fixed.⁴

In the Comptes Rendus ⁵ of the 18^th & 25^th Feb. you will find much, most interesting matter from Biot & Becquerel, & Daguerre’s paper described. ⁶

Yours truly
H. F. Talbot