TALBOT6330

Dear Sir,

Since my Daughter ¹ wrote this morning to M^rs Talbot, ² we had a sail upon Derwent Water, and saw at a distance Barrow House ³ about which we made enquiry. The situation is singularly beautiful as the above Engraving will shew. Were you to take it for 6 weeks after the expiry of your present lease you would be able to get from it to the British Association ⁴ and would be able to return to it before y^e six weeks were expired.

You have done so many fine things [in] Science, and have so many in an embryo state that I cannot help urging you to keep yourself in the active current of enquiry, by courting & yielding to all those impulses which are given by scientific associations, and by mixing largely with the cultivators of Science.

I see that you are gliding into that state of comfortable indolence into which I have almost sunk, tho' you have not the same excuse of age to offer as I have; and I am sure that I should pass into a state of absolute torpidity if I were not now and then raised by considerable intercourse with younger enquirers, and the occasional fact that some results to which I attach importance may be lost.

I am, Dear Sir Yours Most Truly
D Brewster

Keswick
June 7^th 1850

Henry Fox Talbot Esq^r
Windermere Lodge
Ambleside