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Document number: 6103
Date: 19 Feb 1851
Dating: 1851?
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: BECKER J A
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 27th August 2012

J. A. BECKER
56, RUE NEUVE-ST.-NICOLAS.
Commission

Paris,
le 19 Février 1851

Monsieur H F Talbot

Monsieur,

Je m’empresse de vous accuser réception de votre estimée du 17 Ct. <1> et vous prie, pour les raisons que vous m’avez indiquées, de vouloir bien faire remettre les deux exemplaires du Journal Phothographique à Messieurs E. Gambart & Co <2> 25, Berners St Oxford St contre le remboursement de vos frais.

Ci inclus, un petit mot pour ces Messrs à joindre aux deux exemplaires.

Agréez, Monsieur, les sentiments distingués de votre devoué Serviteur
ppon <3> J. A Becker
Greuillet


Translation:

J. A. BECKER
56, RUE NEUVE-ST.-NICOLAS
COMMISSION

Paris,
19 February 1851

Mr H F Talbot

Sir,

I hasten to acknowledge receipt of yours of the 17th instant and ask you, for the reasons which you have indicated to me, to be willing to return the two copies of the Photographic Journal to Mssrs E. Gambart & Co 25, Berners St Oxford St in exchange for the settlement of your expenses.

Included is a small note for these Gentlemen to attach to the two copies.

Please accept the high regard of your devoted Servant
pp J. A. Becker
Greuillet


Notes:

1. Letter not located.

2. Ernest Gambart (1814–1902), Belgian printseller & publisher, active in London.

3. Abbreviation for the French par procuration, that is, by proxy.

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