TALBOT6033

Dear Sir,

Having been from home I have not been able to write you in course of Post.

There are no separate copies of Articles ever published. I have been indulged with a few Copies for myself, and as I got a larger N^o of the Article on Photography, ¹ I can let you have half a dozen if they will answer your purpose.

You would oblige me very much if you could give me a Copy or two of your views of Melrose Abbey. ² The burying ground of my family is close to the South Front of the Nave, and as I am about to erect a monumental Tablet to one of my Sons ³ who perished while bathing in the Tweed, the Talbotype ⁴ would enable me to decide on the Nature & plan of the Tablet.

If you have any other Talbotypes that cannot be otherwise used I should be very glad to receive a few. I made a good use of those you sent me formerly, and I am sure I have circulated gratis upwards of a thousand of my own.

Believe me to be Ever Most Truly yrs
D Brewster

S^t Leonards College
S^t Andrews
Oct^r 27^th 1847

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P.S. Any packet sent to the care of Mess^rs Smith Elder & Co^{y 5} Booksellers Cornhill will reach me safely. Be so good as to let me know how to send the packet with the Article Copies of the Article on Photography.