TALBOT5961

Dear Sir,

I write this hurried note to say that we get the Comptes Rendus ¹ in for our Library. The articles you refer to must have been in N^os which came here in my absence.

I intend to be in Oxford in Queens College, on the 24^th, and if you could give me then the information you refer to, it will be in time ² – but just in time. I hope you will be able to give me some other information on the Talbotype ³. I wish to review your Pencil of Nature, ⁴ but I have not a Copy, having only seen three N^os. ⁵–

I think you sh^d send a copy to all the leading Reviews, which is the cheapest and most effective method of advertising. I do this with my own Works, and the Expense amounts to nothing more than the prime Cost of the Work. The advantage to be derived to the proprietor from this effective way of advertising, being proportional to the cost of the work, the principle is as applicable to an expensive as to a low priced work.

If I had the Pencil of Nature I could give an Analysis of its Contents, whereas without it I can only generally refer to it. If you send it to me I will return it to your Publisher, ⁶ as new as when it reached me.

Ever Most Truly yrs
D Brewster

S^t Leonards’ College
S^t Andrews
June 14^th 1847

H. Fox Talbot Esq^r