TALBOT7819

3 Challoner Terace
South Shields¹

Sir/

May I request the favour of your kind permission to make an experiment in your new & very beautiful process of Photographic Engraving. ² Should I (by your permission) on trial think it would prove useful in conjunction with a process of which I am Patentee– ³ perhaps you would oblige me by saying on what terms I might work it commercially

I remain Sir Yours respectfully
Robinson Elliot

W. H. Fox Talbot Esq^r

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[across top, in WHFT's hand:] Robinson Elliot - S^th Shields
W. H. Fox Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
Wiltshire