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Dear Sir,

I am glad to find that you will send some specimens of your Photographic Engraving ¹ to the Dundee Exhibition. ² If you could add one or two Photographs you would oblige the Committee.

In case I might be from here it will be best to address the packet to M^r Sturrock ³ the Secretary, or if you like to me to his Care.

I have just received from M^r Paul Pretsch ⁴ of Vienna some magnificent Photographs on a great scale. One of them, 20 inches by 15, is from a Bust of the Emperor Charles V.

I have just finished the 1^st Volume of my Life of Newton ⁵ and am working hard at the second which I hope to have finished in Summer.

I was glad you sent me your address at the Lakes ⁶ as my Daughter ⁷ has been anxious to send M^rs Talbot ⁸ a little book of hers.

I shall be glad to see your Experimental Room. I have just got a fine Heliostate ⁹ from M. Duboscq. ¹⁰

We are thinking of going to Clifton ¹¹ in Spring, and hope you may then be at Lacock Abbey.

I am, Ever Most Truly yrs
D Brewster

S^t Leonards College
S^t Andrews
Feb^y 22^d 1854

H. Fox Talbot Esq^r.