TALBOT5338

York
Monday
28^th July 1845

My Dear Mother

The Binder is binding three copies of N^o 1 for you, there are no more plates left for I made a search the other day to see if there were any more – When Nicole ¹ returns to Reading I will desire him to print off more copies of the plates of N^o 1 ² –

M^r Calvert Jones ³ is just arrived to unite his photographic efforts with mine – He says he had a narrow escape just on arriving at his journey’s end; the luggage on the roof of the railway carriage caught fire and immediate a gentleman exclaimed Oh! the gunpowder! for he had 4 pounds of powder in his portmanteau; fortunately they were near York and the train stopped before the fire had communicated to the fatal portmanteau.

Your aff^te
Henry

Direct
post office
Liverpool