Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Sept 8 / 59
Dr Sir
I beg to send you a photoglyphic engraving 1 executed on a steel plate of a little fern growing in my hothouse – It is very common, but I know not its name, except that it is some Adiantum.
I send it however as an exemplification of the process, in its application to botany – Of course 3 or 4 thousand impressions can be taken from the plate<.>
Believe me Yours ever truly
H. F. Talbot
Sir W. J. Hooker
[on accompanying sheet: depiction of fern]
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