TALBOT4151

Dear Sir,

I am delighted with the specimens ¹ you have been so good as to send me; but I long for a Portrait.

I look forward with impatience to the perfection of the Art in your hands, and I would advise you not to disclose your secret in a hurry. You can easily authenticate your claim to the discovery by sending a sealed packet to the Royal Society. ²

I have got a very fine Camera constructed by M^r Thomas Davison 12 Royal Exchange Edin^r [Edinburgh],³ who has executed Daguerreotype pictures far superior, in the estimation of foreigners & others, to those executed by Daguerre.⁴ I have two of them of scenes in Edin^r, that are inexpressibly fine, but notwithstanding their beauty, your Photogenic drawings are most generally admired.

When you have published your method I shall immediately apply it to our beautiful ruins here which are well adapted for the purpose. – We have also grand & precipitous coasts which will be easily taken.– M^r Davison took one of the shipping at Glasgow bridge which was much admired.⁵

I am, Dear Sir, Ever Most Faithfully Yours
D Brewster

S^t. Leonards
S^t Andrews
October 23^d 1840

H.F. Talbot Esq^r