TALBOT8663

My Dear Sir

Many thanks for your kind offer ¹ of a paper communication on the Photoglyph ². The Fern is admirably done. I shall be glad to have the use of the Steel plates<.> Will you kindly give me the title of your Communication at once as I want to insert it in the Botanical Society’s Billet, ³ so that it may be read there on Thursday the 11^th before being printed as the Insertⁿ in the Society’s Transactions as was done in the case of your previous Photoglyphs.

I am Yours Sincerely
J. H. Balfour

27 Inverleith Row
3 June 1863

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H. F. Talbot Esq
Millburn Tower
Hermiston