TALBOT7075

My dear Mr Talbot

I have received your letters & the specifications of your patent, as well as the depositions of Sir J. Herschel & Sir D. Brewster. ¹ I had thought you had published a paper in the Phil. Trans. ² or had at least given a notice of your discovery to the Royal Society in some form, & it was to this which I alluded. ³ I had experimented early on the positive process, ⁴ but found it so very long that I abandoned it.

I will follow your suggestion and do something with it before I go to Town. My assistant ⁵ is at work getting all ready for his experiment on your specification, & I doubt not he will be ready for the Camera so soon as the slides arrive. ⁶ I have not told him a word about the process as conducted in general by myself, so that if he succeeds it will be entirely a success of his own.

I will try to go to Town a few days before the trial & will call on your Solicitor. ⁷

Believe me, Yours very truly
Nevil Story-Maskelyne.

Ashmolean Museum. ⁸ Oxford.
December 1 – 1859.