TALBOT8715

Millburn Tower ¹Hermiston
Edinburgh
June 2

Prof^r Balfour

D^r Sir

I enclose a specimen of my photoglyphic engraving representing a fernleaf.² Would you like to insert it in the next N^o of the Journal ³ of which you are Editor? with a brief explanation? If so, I could give you the plate, which is a steel one & therefore it can give numerous impressions. I think that you published a year or two ago a plate I made for Prof^r C. P. Smyth ⁴ representing two young dragontrees at Teneriffe ⁵ –It was not a good one, the original photograph being very indifferent.

This fern leaf is quite opaque, but if I had a transparent one I could make an engraving showing the veins and fructification.

I remain D^r Sir Yours vy truly
H. F. Talbot

[on blank side of folded sheet in JHB’s hand:]1863.
H Fox Talbot