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Dear Sir,

I beg to thank you for the nice little packet of Talbotypes ¹ wh^h you sent me by Post. I have not yet, owing I daresay to some mistake received the parcel which you sent thro’ Messrs Smith Elder & Co. ² Our University Library Parcel which they dispatch on the 31^st of each month arrived yesterday and did not contain it.

I have written to them & desired it to be sent by Railway.

I expect to be at Rossie Priory ³ in Dec^r when Lord De Mauley ⁴ pays his annual visit there, and I shall then deliver your remembrances. Lady Kinnaird ⁵ is one of the most accomplished and interesting persons I have ever met with. She is universally worshipped; and there are few if any of our nobility who take such an interest as Lord Kinnaird ⁶ does in the advancement of every benevolent and useful Institution.

The Talbotype from the Oil Painting is singularly fine. The original cannot be more expressive of the Scene. ⁷

I have been greatly amazed by the shameful Review of your New Work. ⁸

Lockhart ⁹ was here the day before I received my Copy of the Review, ¹⁰ otherwise I would have remonstrated against such injustice.

Believe me to be Dear Sir Ever Most Truly yrs
D Brewster

S^t Leonards College
S^t Andrews

Nov^r 6^th 1847

Henry Fox Talbot Esq^r