TALBOT482

[printed notepaper with date inserted in manuscript:]

South Kensington Museum, London, S.W.
2 ^nd day of May 1876.
In your reply,
please quote this number.
No.

Loan Exhibition
of Scientific Apparatus.

Sir,

Adverting to my letter of the 17^th ultimo, I beg to inform you that the Department will be glad to receive, as soon as possible, the specimens of Photoglyphic Engraving ¹ which, through Captain Abney, R.E. ² you so kindly consented to contribute to the above-named Exhibition –

I am, Sir, Your obedient Servant,
P Cunliffe Owen

Director SKM

H. Fox Talbot, Esq. F.R.S.
Lacock Abbey,
Chippenham.