Dear Talbot,
Many thanks for the loan of those beautiful photographs. 1 They were much admired last Saturday Evg and I intend to retain them untill after next Saturday the 9 unless you wish them otherwise disposed of. – I will then return them to Sackville St. 2 In the meantime I gave Lady Byron 3 a treat to whom I lent them for a few hours.
I hope whenever you come to town and find I have an assembly of my friends on Saturday evening you will always consider yourself as invited and most wellcome [sic].
Ever truly Yours
C Babbage
Dorset H
Manch Sq
26 Feb 1844
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