TALBOT6742

Royal Panopticon of Science and Art
Leicester Square
March 22^d 1853

Sir,

The Photograph department of this Institution ¹ is now open and feeling sensible how much the success of a new Institution like this depends on the liberal support it receives from gentlemen of your position and [word missing - paper torn away] known scientific attainments, we beg to lay the enclosed prospectus before you and in doing so, to request your permission to practice the portraiture branch of your patent and in regard to the terms we throw ourselves upon the liberality you have already so generously exhibited in giving to the Public, so large a share of your eminently successful invention and we avail ourselves of this opportunity to solicit the favor of your company to view the Building which will now be shortly open to the Public

At the next meeting of Council it would afford us great pleasure to propose that your name be placed on the list of Associates of the Institution; if such a course should meet with your approbation

An early reply at your convenience will oblige
Sir, Your obedient Servants.
John Wilson
Alfred Rosling

Members of the Photographic Com^tee