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My dear Henry

We had studied the account of your Photographic Engraving as given in the Athæneum ¹ [sic] with the greatest interest, so you may imagine how delighted M^r Llewelyn ² is, with the very perfect and most wonderful, & promising specimens you have been so good as to send us –

He desires me to thank you very much for them – and to enclose you a specimen of his botanical records of a Wisteria which we had this Spring loaded with blossom inside the Conservatory – it being a plant we admire so much, as to give it 2 seasons & we have it again, as now, outside – but we have not room for such a splendid display as your 90 foot wall!

Pray do not forget your engagement to make portraits for me of your children – We find these records of passing time, invaluable & have many little daguerreotype ³ ones to mark the lapse of years – How superior are the paper portraits!

Believe me your very aff^te cousin
Emma Llewelyn

Penllergare
May 27^th 1853

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Henry Fox Talbot Esq^r.
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham