TALBOT6329

Dear Sir,

I received your note ¹ addressed to me at Woolwich; but as I immediately resolved to pay you a visit on my way to Scotland, I waited till we sh^d be able to fix upon the time when we could leave London, before I wrote to you.

We leave London by the Express Train on Tuesday first, and shall be at Ambleside the same Evening if the Train to Bowness is suitable, & if we can get horses to Ambleside.

My Daughter ² is with me and if you could allow her to occupy the room wh^h you kindly offer to me I would get a bed at the Inn.

I have just returned from the visitation of the Observatory at Greenwich where I met with many of your Friends.

Photography is now about to be merged in the Talbotype. ³ They are busy in Paris with experiments of all kinds. Gelatine is used as a substitute for albumine, ⁴ and I learn from Niepce ⁵ that he has new methods of accelerating the Process.

I am Dear Sir Ever Most Truly yrs
D Brewster

London
4 Albemarle S^t
June 1^st 1850

H. Fox Talbot Esq^r