TALBOT8957

13 Great Street
Edinburgh

Monday

My Dear Charles

Is there a photographer at Cardiff? If so, I sh^d like to have a photograph made of your Elevation of the new school at Lacock, which I would Engrave and distribute a few copies among our neighbours in the Parish that they may see what they are asked to subscribe to.

I searched in the library of the R. Society ¹ for the paper of M. Chasles ² w^ch I quoted in my memoir w^ch I gave you a copy of last week, and I found that that geometer had discovered and given your Theorem, that a Triangle (or other Polygon) circumscribes an ellipse & having its angles upon 3 or more other confocal ellipses has a Constant Perimeter. Today is bitterly cold. The new statues of Allan Ramsay ³ & Wilson look uncomfortable as if they did not like it. Crowds are still staring at them.

Your aff^te

Father