TALBOT4713

Burlington St ¹
1 Feb^y. ²

Dear Henry

I saw the other day at the Foreign Office the first application of Photography to public business, in the shape of calotype copies, ³ of many pages, of the whole Chinese Treaty ⁴ taken off with the greatest success & precision. Whenever you come to England go to the F.O. & ask Mellish ⁵ to show it you, & if you can suggest any improvement you will be, still more, a public benefactor.

I had a letter from Tenore ⁶ lately in which he says that the Neapolitan experimentalists do not succeed at all in Fotografia –

Have you received any letters from him about it? I wish you would write & enlighten him, for he evidently is in the dark.

I remain here about a fortnight longer before returning to Frankfort I am surrounded by Narcissus Hyacinths &c from Abbotsbury ⁷ Did Caroline ⁸ get my letter, when does she return?

Y^r aff
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