TALBOT3939

Cornhill
23 Sept^r /39

Sir,

Allow us to request your kind Acceptance of the accompanying Copy of D^r Memes’ Translation of Daguerre’s History & Practice of Photogenic Drawing, ¹ which we have recently published – a subject to which you have devoted so much attention & the original discovery of which we believe to belong to you. –

It was D^r Memes’s wish to have alluded to this, at some length, in the present Work, but the very limited time he was able to give to the translation, & his being obliged to leave Town immediately it was completed, prevented his giving it that attention he so much desired. – We intend publishing another Edition in a very short time,² and shall be happy to insert any notice of this circumstance which you may be pleased to forward to us for that purpose. –

We are, Sir, Your Ob Ser^ts
Smith Elder & C^o

H. F. Talbot Esq^re