TALBOT9395

[printed notepaper:]
3, Upper Grosvenor Street,
Grosvenor Square,
London. W.

July 30 1868

Sir

As a friend of your old acquaintance the late Rev^d G. Bridges ¹ I venture to trouble you to know where I can obtain a photographic likeness of yourself – application having been made to me for one for a collection in Paris of the “premieres pères de la Photographie”

I am Sir Your vy Try
J Spencer Wells

H. Fox Talbot Esq

[envelope:]
H^y Fox Talbot Es^r> F.R.S.
Laycock Abbey
Wilts
[added by WHFT upper left corner recto:]
M^r Wells, Grosvenor S^t.