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Dear M^r Talbot,

I am delighted to learn that you are to be in Edinburgh ¹ for some time.

It will give me great pleasure to become acquainted with your Son. ²

I regretted to find that M^rs Gilchrist Clark ³ had left Edin^r when I call upon her.

I would have answered your Note sooner, but I expected to have done it personally, on the 24^th, when I intended to be in Edin^r – I had indeed got to Galashiels ⁴ 4 miles from this, but was driven back by the intensity of the cold.

I have not seen the Phosphoroscope ⁵ of Becquerel but if it requires Sun to exhibit it, I am afraid we must adjourn to some other planet.

I am, Dear M^r Talbot, Ever Most Truly yrs
D Brewster

Allerly Melrose
Dec^r 27^th 1860

P.S. I hope to be in Edin^r on the 29^th, and at Duncliffe Murrayfield near Edin^r.

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Henry Fox Talbot Esq
11 Moray Place
Edin^r