urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H3402473:	edition	
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H3402473:1	writingSession	
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H3402473:1.1	p	The bearer of this, Mr <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" /><persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H8894976">Polyblank</persName> of <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0011492 https://www.geonames.org/2643743">London</placeName>, has <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />rendered Science a very <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />great service, by the series <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of unrivalled portraits of <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Scientific men which he <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />has executed in Photograph, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />& supplied to the members <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />of the <orgName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0000583 http://d-nb.info/gnd/39272-8">Royal</orgName> & <orgName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H6654236 https://d-nb.info/gnd/38819-1">Linnaean <lb />Societies</orgName> at the smallest <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />possible cost.
urn:cts:humboldtdigital:letter.H3402473:1.2	p	Mr <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H8894976">Polyblank</persName> hopes for <pb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" n="1v" /><add xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" place="superlinear">the</add> privilege of obtaining a <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />Sitting from you, & I need <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />not say that if you feel <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />able to grant him this <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />honor, you will afford <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />the highest gratification <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />to hosts in this <placeName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H0010934 https://www.geonames.org/2635167">country</placeName>. <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />I can with confidence assert, <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />that there is no artist <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />from whom we would <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />rather have such a portrait <lb xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" />than Mr <persName xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" ref="https://edition-humboldt.de/H8894976">Polyblank</persName>.