TALBOT3889

Lacock Abbey, Chippenham
June 7. 1839

My Dear Sir,

I have sent you a small packet of photogenic drawings, but not being sure that you are still in Town I have not sent it to Gordon’s Hotel¹ but to 31 Sackville S^t, ² if you will be so good as to send for it there.

Yours very truly
H.F. Talbot

L.W. Dillwyn Esq
Gordon’s Hotel
Albemarle S^t
London

[Dillwyn forwarded this letter to his friend, Dawson Turner (1775-1858), botanist, author and banker. The cover letter is also in the Eastman House collection - both came from the collection of Albert E. Marshall:]

My dear Turner

I find that the best way not to forget a thing is to do it at once & so I enclose one very good photogenic Leaf which M^r Talbot has marked to be his own, & also another by the same hand to shew a somewhat different stile which I have cut from a group as the whole would have been too large for a Letter- I have also part of Talbot's note which accompanied them, & while in Parliament he had such an aversion to Autograph Hunters that when applied to for a Frank he would never give one without ascertaining the use that was to be made of it.

I have a Copy of your first Edition of Rubens & unless it contains some new matter I need not to rob you of a second.³ Among the few pictures at Sketty there is a comparatively small one of two Ladies which I bought from Capt. Marriott the Naval writer,⁴ & it is considered to be a study by Rubens for his great picture of the Conversion of S^t. Bouvon at Ghent,⁵ into wheich they have been accurately copied-

In great haste very sincerely Y^rs
L W Dillwyn

Sketty Hall⁶
June 30. 1839

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London July 3 1839
Dawson Turner Esq
Yarmouth Norfolk
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