TALBOT6109

Royal Gardens,
Kew.
Feb. 15. 1848.

My dear Sir

I go so little to Town & am so little in the Scientific world that I am ashamed to say I do not know whether there is any person in London who makes a business making photographic drawings of objects, according to your process; ¹ & who would come to Kew to do so, at a moderate expence? – Or can one hire an apparatus & make them? I take for granted that our noble Palm-House would have a good effect done in this style, & I wish to have an interior view of this structure executed before any of the Plants are placed in it. Can such a representation then be framed & exposed to the light without injury? I have a daguerotype representation: – but though placed over the fire-place in my Drawing-room, it attracts no attention: – for it is only in certain lights the subject represented is visible at all.

Yours, My dear Sir,very truly
W. J. Hooker

To H. Fox Talbot Esq^re