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Document number: 05252
Date: 15 May 1845
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: VOGEL Friedrich Carl
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: acc 24382
Last updated: 5th November 2014

Frankfurt a/M,
den 15ten May 1845

Hochgeehrter Herr Talbot!

Mit großem Interesse habe ich die Leistungen Ihrer Photographie vom ersten Anfang der Mittheilungen im Jahr 1839 an erfahren, auch bey der Englischen Gesandschaft dahier verschiedene Fortschritte derselben bewundert, – nach den neuesten mir bekannten Verbesserungen, wie Sie Ihr Patent vom 1ten Juny 1843 veröffentlicht, spätere Mittheilungen sind mir nicht bekannt, wünsche ich mich nun mit der Anfertigung von Photographien zu beschäftigen und erlaube mir mich mit der ergebenen Bitte an Sie zu wenden mir zu dem Zweck gefälligst die Papierhandlung zu bezeichnen, durch welche ich die geeigneten Materialien erhalten kann – oder eine solche zu veranlassen mir gute Papiere im Betrag etwa von 12 Schilling zur Probe zu senden – Wenn Sie neuere Veröffentlichungen Ihrer Verfahren gemacht haben oder deren machen, so bitte Sie mir solche Werke oder Journalartikel pr Post # unter Nachname des Betrages zu übersenden.

Ich bin mit vorzüglicher Hochachtung Ihr ergebener
F. C. Vogel<1>

E. 62
gr. Bockenheimerstrasse
in Frankfurt a/Main
Deutschland

# by Batavia, Steamer to Rotterdam and thence by the Netherland Steam Company

[Address panel:]
Monsieur
W.H.F. Talbot
Lacock Abbey,(Wilts)
England

Translation:

[The following is a translation in an unidentified hand, contemporaneous with Vogel's letter and presumably commissioned by him to accompany his original letter. WHFT was fluent in German and would not have needed a translation.]

Translation.

Frankfurt a/M 15th May 1845

Mr. W. H. F. Talbot
Lacock Abby [sic] Wilts,

Sir,

I have read with great interest of your Photographic Productions since their origin in the year 1839. I had also an opportunity of admiring their different progressions at the English Embassy here, according to the latest corrections and improvements – as far as I know, as published by your Patent of 1st June 1843.

Being about making Photographic views I take the liberty to request you to be kind enough to acquaint me to that purpose with the name of that Stationary or Paper manufactory, where I might get the proper materials, or to cause one that you know, to send me, as a sample, some good papers of the value of abt. 12 shillings.

Should there be any publications of yours of a later period as the above mentioned I would thank you to send me such works, or articles in Journals &c. as as are out or will come out, in charging the amount forward, by Batavia steamer to Rotterdam and thence by the Netherland Steam Company.

I am, Sir, with much esteem your very obedt. servt.,
(signed) F. C. Vogel

E 62 gr. gr. Bockenheimer Str., Frankfort a/M

Notes:

1. Vogel's name presents some confusioin. In The Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue of the Great Exhibition (1851), v. 3, entry 739 his entry under Austria is erroneously 'Vogel, Carl Friedrich, Milan. Photographs'. This is the only Vogel entry for a photographer and must be the present writer. In Doc. No: 06185 he signed 'Fritz Vogel'; in Doc. No: 06406 'Fr: Vogel'; and Doc. No: 06452, 'F. Vogel'.