TALBOT4029

[written on the same sheet as a note from Lady Elisabeth - see ].

London
24 June

My Dear Henry

Why does Cat’s ice ¹ in forming in a thin film on the surface of water, strike out radiations of crystallization?

Why does the skim of cream in a hot cup of tea which cannot be freezing, do just the same?

WFS

London
1836 June twenty four
Henry Fox Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
W F Strangways