TALBOT3954

31 Sackville S^{t 1}
Oct. 9^th

Dear Sir

As you have informed me that silvered paper ² is found to answer I wish very much you would make a picture or two thereon & send them to me, as I have an idea that such might be successfully copied or transferred.

Any pictures will do for experiment, so that much time need not be spent upon them.

Some shops appear to me to sell tinned paper for silver, at least I found iodine had not the smallest effect on it, & that it had every external character of brightened tin, which untoward circumstance put an end to my experiments on the subject at that time.

I am returning to Lacock Abbey on Thursday, therefore if you could send me anything of the sort, transmit it by the Bath Coach.

I will look out and send you some pictures with the Solar Microscope (magnified lace; 100 & 400 times magnified in surface) ³ which I made about 3 months ago. Herschel ⁴ says he saw nothing like them in Paris, & Robert Brown ⁵ says the same.

Yours very truly
H. F. Talbot

I have received the silver plate ⁶ & am much obliged – Should you be writing to Paris for any more, I will thank you to order a couple of dozen for me –