Faraday to William Henry Fox Talbot1   9 May 18272

Royal Institution | May 9th

Dear Sir

Occupations in the city have taken me from home the last two days so continually that I have not had opportunity of replying to yours of Monday. The bleaching or rather disinfecting powder may be procured at Waughs 177 I think it is in Regent street3[.] The experiment on the Cyanogen lamp I shall be very happy to make for you4[.]

I am Very Truly Yours | M. Faraday

H.F. Talbot Esq

1
William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–1877, ODNB). One of the inventors of photography.
2
Dated on the basis of the reference to Cyanogen which is mentioned in Herschel to Talbot, 22 May 1827, RS MS HS 17.263.
3
J. and G. Waugh. Chemists of 177 Regent Street. POD.
4
This was not reported until Talbot (1834), 114.

Bibliography

TALBOT, William Henry Fox (1834): “Facts relating to Optical Science. No. I”, Phil. Mag., 4: 112-4.

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