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Document number: 4493
Date: 22 Apr 1842
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: HUNT Robert
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA42-023
Last updated: 5th April 2010

Falmouth
April 22 – 1842

Dear Sir

I thank you for the very interesting specimens of your Photographic process <1> – Mr Goddard <2> appears to the life in the group <3> – I have done but little this year – but even that little has given some remarkable results – Of these I will inform you on some early opportunity.

I haste I am Dr Sir most respectfully & truly
Robt Hunt

H F Talbot Esq


Notes:

1. WHFT's new Calotype process for negatives - he had not yet revealed the manipulatory details of this.

2. John Frederick Goddard (1797–1866), lecturer & photographer.

3. For this image see ‘John Frederic Goddard addresses Charles Porter and Nicolaas Henneman’, taken on 8 April 1842, Schaaf 2641, reproduced in Larry J. Schaaf, Sun Pictures Catalogue Nine: William Henry Fox Talbot: Friends and Relations (New York: Hans P. Kraus, Jr., 1999), pp. 27–29.

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