TALBOT7719

112 Gloucester Terrace ¹
Friday

My dear Henry

I beg to send my warmest thanks for your most charming print & kind offer of a box of chemicals – I shall certainly do my best to succeed, and will send you photographs to try upon when we return home – I had an idea before reading your letter that the print was made from a paper photograph,² my idea was that you had the negative on the glass to work from! You must tell me whether you prefer paper or glass,³ as we sometimes print the stereoscopes ⁴ on glass which is so much finer a substance to receive the print upon. Should I wax the paper or leave it to you? and must they be printed upon albumenized paper or plain paper?-⁵

Nevil Maskelyne⁶ is delighted to see your hand writing and recurs to the extreme pleasure he felt on the receipt of the first photographic correspondence⁷ he had with you many years ago – I am looking forward with great pleasure to M^rs Talbot’s ⁸ visit which I shall hope to persuade her to extend beyond the mere week that she promised me –

believe me to remain your very aff^te cousin
Emma Llewelyn

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Henry Fox Talbot Esq^r.
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham