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.