TALBOT6797

32 Harley Street ¹
May 14/53

My dear Sir

I beg to thank you for your delicate & admirably executed specimens of Photographic Engraving. ²

This great step will render possible the publication of miniature books ³ – even of miniature facsimiles of original MSS. &c &c. and I congratulate you on having arrived at so great a result in itself independent of the innumerable applications which it is capable of.

I annex a little photograph by my brother in Law M^r J. Stewart ⁴ of Pau – of himself on horseback. – It is oversunned, yet the time of exposure was the very shortest it was possible to give by momentarily removing and replacing the cover of the lens – the original impression being a negative on Collodium. ⁵

Yours very truly
JFW Herschel.

[Herschel family fair copy]

From. J. F. W. Herschel
To … H. F. Talbot

Harley Street
May 14 1853

My dear Sir

I beg to thank you for your delicate & admirably executed specimens of Photographic Engraving.

This great step will render possible the publication of miniature Books – even of miniature facsimiles of original MSS. &c &c. and I congratulate you on having arrived at so great a result in itself independent of the innumerable applications which it is capable of

I annex a little photograph of my brother in Law M^r J. Stewart of Pau – of himself on horseback.– It is over-sunned, yet the time of exposure was the very shortest it was possible to give by momentarily removing and replacing the cover of the lens – the original impression being a negative on Collodium

Yours very truly
(S^d) J.F.W. H

Envelope:⁶

Sir J. Herschel
H. F. Talbot E^sq
Lacock Abbey
near Chippenham
Wilts.