TALBOT9833

Lacock Abbey Chippenham

Jan^y 25, 1872

My dear Trevelyan

I have sent today per Railway three specimens of my photoglyphic engravings – I could not manage to send them sooner – The original photographs were taken by Ferrier of Paris and I transferred them to Copperplates by my engraving process –

The copper is then covered with steel by the galvanic process called “acierage”, which hardens it so much that it will yield 3000 to 5000 impressions<.> I should observe that the engraving is not at all retouched or improved, but exactly in the state in which the process gives it – The cloudiness in the foreground of “Avignon” is caused by persons moving about, who should have stood still for a minute or two.

I will write in a few days about our collection of plants made at Harrow. I rather think I have got a portion of them still, for I certainly saw them not long ago.

Believe me Yours vy truly

H. F. Talbot