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Dear M^r Talbot,

I write this hurried note to say that my Daughter ¹ and I left London with the full intention of availing ourselves of your kind invitation to Lacock Abbey on the 3^d. Nov^r, by returning from Asbury Park Coventry where we shall be till Friday; but we yesterday received a letter from my Son ² who is now in Scotland on leave from his Reg^t in Malta, and whose movements make it necessary that we sh^d return as soon as we possibly can. It is a great disappointment to us that any thing sh^d have occurred to have deprived us of the pleasure of seeing you and M^rs Talbot. ³

I entirely agree with you in all you say about the treatment you have received, ⁴ but unless you have other information than I have, which involves the Members of the Academy of the Sciences ⁵ in the matter, I suppose that the mere publishing of M^r Everard's⁶ paper in the Comptes Rendus ⁷ does not make them responsible for its contents.

I am, Ever Most Truly yrs
D Brewster

Leamington ⁸
Oct^r 27^th 1851

H.F. Talbot Esq^r