TALBOT7727

Lower Mall
Hammersmith ¹
Nov^r 2 /58

My dear Sir

M^r Crookes ² has informed me that you have had some difficulty in finding large glass photographs to convert into engravings. ³ I have four pairs of positive stereoscopic pictures on glass plates, about 12 by 8 inches; they were taken for me by Ferrier ⁴ of Paris. All the subjects are architectural. The bird’s eye view of Paris along the Seine ⁵ would, I think be a good subject for you. They are quite at your service, and if you can make use of them I will desire Mess^rs Murray & Heath ⁶ to deliver them to your order, or forward them to you. A pair of stereographs would be perhaps a better test of the accuracy of your process than a single picture would be; ⁷ M. Pretsch ⁸ engraved a pair for me from paper positives, but there was too much touching up in them.

Yours very truly
C. Wheatstone