TALBOT7494

3 Park Place
Edinburgh

14 Nov 1857

My dear Sir

It gave M^rs Forbes and myself much pleasure to hear that you, M^rs Talbot ¹ & your family are to spend Another Winter in Edinburgh We shall have the pleasure of calling at 4 Atholl Crescent. ²

I am in better health than when you were last here though still by no means Strong. I had intended passing the past summer in Switzerland but was unfortunate enough to be taken ill at Folkestone and to have to turn back.

When you were last here you very kindly offered ³ to introduce me to the wonders of Ruhmkorff’s Induction Coil, ⁴ but my health did not then permit me to undertake experiments with which I was not the immediately engaged.

If however it were not inconvenient to you now to bring the Coil I should be grateful to take a lesson from you. For I still know it only by description. I suppose that yours has a condenser.

Let me beg however that you will not incommode yourself with this apparatus unless you have a suitable opportunity.

I remain dear Sir Yours very faithfully
James D. Forbes.

H. Fox Talbot Esq.

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H. Fox Talbot Esq
Laycock Abbey
Chippenham