Falmouth
March 30 – 1843

Dear Sir

Mess^rs Longman ^<1> have informed me that it is your intention to publish Calotype views of the Cathedrals &c ^<2> and have asked me to refer to your production in the work I am engaged on “ Light considered as a chemical Agent ^<3>“ – I assure you it will give me the greatest pleasure to do so – and I shall feel it a kindness if you will give me some idea of the work you contemplate that we may not both tread the same ground – I have been trying the Calotype process within the last few days – and I have had uniform success – I shall now see about making arrangements to work the process.

I am D^r Sir yours most
respectfully & faithfully
Rob^t Hunt

H^y Fox Talbot Esq^r

[envelope:]
H^y Fox Talbot Esq^r
Sackville St
London
or
Lacock Abbey Wiltshire

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Notes:

1. Longman & Company, publishers, London.

2. WHFT, The Pencil of Nature (London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, June 1844–April 1846 [issued in six fascicles]).

3. Robert Hunt, Researches on light: an examination of all the phenomena connected with the chemical and molecular changes produced by the influence of the solar rays : embracing all the known photographic processes and new discoveries in the art (London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1844).