TALBOT7092

M^r Maskelyne

Ath^{m 1}

Monday night
Dec 11

D^r Sir

The trial ² is put off till Monday the 18^th or Tuesday the 19^th this is tedious. The convenience of the Court decides these matters.

You say that you succeed ³ in 3 minutes good sunshine with Reades process. ⁴ His process <illegible deletion> employs infusion of Galls in water, not tincture as I supposed formerly – The tincture holding more galls in solution is correspondingly more energetic.

We found to day the following results – when Gallonitrate was spread on paper, and lightly dried off with blotting paper

	on iodized paper		on common paper
Expt 1.	one second	gave an equal result to	25 minutes
Expt 2.	One second	–––	52 minutes

Different persons witnessed the above 2 exp^ts

Believe me
Yours Vy truly

H. F. Talbot