Contains descriptions and summaries of Talbot’s correspondence with Jean-Baptiste Biot, David Brewster, John Frederick William Herschel, Antoine Claudet, etc. „In 1934, Matilda Talbot donated the larger portion of Talbot's archives to the Science Museum, including a group of about 300 of the most important letters that Talbot had received from scientists such as Sir John Herschel and Sir David Brewster. This volume contains a brief synopsis of each letter in this collection (which is now housed at the National Museum of Photography, Film & Television in Bradford).“ (Publisher’s text).