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Document number: 5997
Date: 29 Sep 1847
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: JONES Calvert Richard
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA47-76
Last updated: 16th February 2012

Heathfield.
Septr 29. 1847.

Dear Sir,

I have no objection to the arrangement which you propose, except that you do not mention the sum which I should recieve [sic] on the sale of large and small Talbotypes. <1> I shd like to know how much I shd realize by the sale of 6 of these respectively.

With respect to the coloured copies, I only hope that Henneman <2> has not sold one of these as I desired expressly that they shd not be either exhibited or sold unless you wished to take them.

I have never wished to force them on you, and only begged repeatedly that I might have them back, if you did not wish to have them.

I again make this request, and shall be much obliged to recieve [sic] them as soon as possible since I wish to dispose of them elsewhere.

I am confirmed in my opinion that the price is low by my old drawing master Mr J. D. Harding; <3> the operation is very delicate and difficult to perform well and I am happy to say that I have lately advanced in it.

Yours very truly
Calvert R. Jones.

Notes:

1. Although WHFT modestly used the term calotype, Jones and other loyal supporters honoured him by calling these Talbotypes, in parallel with the term Daguerreotype.

2. Nicolaas Henneman (1813–1898), Dutch, active in England; WHFT’s valet, then assistant; photographer.

3. James Duffield Harding (1797–1863), painter, writer on art theory and teacher of among others John Ruskin and Jones himself.

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