TALBOT3907

My dear Sir!

It was with great pleasure, that I received your notices ¹ about the photogenic-drawings. These were laid before the academy, and Prof^r Steinheil ² and v. Kobell³ made a review of your proceding [sic] as far as it appeared from the print. They have also prosecuted the matter from another point of view, as you will see by the inclosed ⁴ Number of our “gelehrte Anzeigen” and a little design.

Perhaps this letter shall be brought to your hands by His Excellency Count Colloredo, Austrian Ambassador at Munich, a man gifted with gre[at] ⁵ [illegible] and full of instruction, who takes a particular interest in Ast[ronomy?] [and?] natural Philosophy in general. If he ought to bring himself this letter, loveliness of his character make unnecessary every encomium and I hope you shall be happy in his company.

I beg you to make my respectful compliments to Lady Fielding [sic], your highly honoured mother,⁶ and the whole family, and beliefe [sic] me,

Dear Sir! Yours Must [sic] devoted humble servant and fri[end]
D^r v Martius

Munich,
13. Jul. 1839.

[envelope:]
To Henry Fox Talbot Esq
31 Sackville S^t.
Piccadilly
London.
London July Thirteen
H. Fox Talbot Esq^r Lacock Abbey
Chippenham