TALBOT7031

Ashmolean Museum ¹Oxford
July 31.

My dear M^r Talbot

I forgot to write a note & to leave it for you before I left Town a few days ago, as I had hoped to see you there. The Photographic Society ² carried by a contemptible minority, I think 15 voted for it – a clause absurd in itself & still more absurd in its issue – compelling the council to draw up a memorial on the subject of the Patent ³ to go before the Privy Council. ⁴ You will see the terms of it in the last number of the Photographic Society’s Journal. But the absurdity of the thing was that it was done the day after the last day on which any such document could be sent in & so it of course comes to nothing!

I wish you all success & have little doubt of your having it.

Yours very faithfully
Nevil S Maskelyne