TALBOT4317

Dear Sir,

As you have left me at the Stake ¹ without any sympathy or counsel, I must beg you to let me know what you propose to do about the Royal Society affair; ² as I have taken no steps & made no remonstrance since I learned that you were under the same disability.

I enclose some of the disjecta membra Photographorum ³, which will shew you how completely your Process ⁴ has baffled us.

If you can make Pictures with the Papers prepared by Major Playfair, ⁵ we shall then find out where the fault lies.

The failures by D^r Adamson ⁶ have been injured by exposure to light. He finds the Salt a better Fixer than the Bromide. He says that the immersion in Water washes out the virtue, & he is anxious to have a mark ⁷ for the proper strength of the Acetic Acid.

I am anxious to receive from you a Negative & the Positive Picture taken from it.

I am Dear Sir Ever Most Truly y^rs
D Brewster

S^t Leonards
S^t Andrews
July 27^th 1841