[Note added in another hand - Jerdan's?:]
Mr Talbot
March 39
Queen Ann St. 1
Saturday
Dear Sir
As I should be sorry to trespass too far upon your columns, I will mention the articles which I proposed to send you on Monday or Tuesday next, in order that, if it should appear too much, you can tell me which of them you would prefer to have.
1. Copy of my paper read to the R. Society last Thursday.2 It is short.
2. Translation of a part of a letter from M. Biot 3 to myself, containing his experiments upon my new sensitive paper; of which he seems to entertain quite as favorable an opinion as I do myself. Sir John Herschel 4 also concurs in this.
3. Translation of M Daguerre’s 5 statement respecting his own claims &c M. Niepce, from the Comptes Rendus 6 – if I can procure the loan of a copy
Yours very truly
H. F. Talbot
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