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Document number: 05685
Date: 08 Jul 1846
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: JONES Calvert Richard
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA46-80
Last updated: 21st February 2012

Veranda.
July 8th 1846

My dear Sir,

I have had much business or shd have written to you at Ambleside; <1> and afterwards thought that you wd have left.

I feared that you wd not find much in that region, as I think distant and general landscapes are some of the last subjects for Photography, i,e [sic] until we can have much larger Cameras and paper.

Enclosed is a list of my 2nd Series, which I think will in general yield much finer copies than the 1st set: as the negatives have been left a much longer time in the Camera. I wish exceedingly to accept your kind invitation and bring them with me, but my Aunts affairs <2> still demand my constant presence.

I shd be very much obliged for copies of my remaining 1st series pictures, about 20 of each size remain, which I have not seen.

It wd give me great pleasure to see your Reading establishment: <3> I think it probable that we may ere long leave Wales entirely, as my poor Aunt has been in a manner left on my hands, and I must look out for a Living to render her latter days more comfortable. Has Henneman <4> brought any thing new from Paris in the Camera way?

Yours most truly
Calvert R Jones

Small Talbotypes <5>
2nd Series.

1. Prickly pear. Valetta.
2. Do. 2nd view.
3. Strada Forni. Do.
4. Custom house. do.
5. Domenican [sic] Friars. do.
6. Do.
7. Capucin Friars. do
8. Do
9. Neapolitan fishing boats.
10. Do.
11. Household altar. Pompeii
12. Temple of Venus. Do
13. In the Basilica. do.
14. House of the Vestals do
15. Drinking table & wine coolers do
16. Flour mill. do.
17. Arch leading to Forum. do.
18. Near view of do.
19. House of Castor & Pollux. do
20. House of the Tragic Poet.
21. Do another view.
22. House lately excavated.

Large Talbotypes.

2nd Series.

1. Strada Sa Lucia. Valetta.
2. Palm tree. Malta.
3. Do 2nd view.
4. In Mr Frere’s garden.
bracket symbol - right 5. St Paul’s bay
6. Do
7. Do
8. Do from block house.
9. Royal Naval Hospital. Valetta. <6>
10. Gen. view of Senglea: from the Marina
11. Part of the Governor’s palace. Valetta
12. Library adjoining do.
13. On the Marina: nr nix mangiare[?]
14. Square at Floriane.
15. Custom house from the Marina.
16. Ancient Carriages of grand masters
17. Large view of one do.
18. Albergo de Castile.
bracket symbol - right 19. Cathedral Messina <7> bracket symbol - left Sicily
20. Do.
21. Part of Do.
22. On the marina. Messina.
23. Chiesa Sa Caterina do.
24. Chiatamone. Naples. <8>
25. Royal palace. Do.
26. Naples from the Eastward.
27. Health Office. Do. <9>
28. Naples, & Vesuvius from the Chiaga
29. Vessels on the E. Marina. Naples.
30. Naples from the Mole.
31. Massaniello’s Market place. Naples.
32. On the Chiatamone. Do.
33. Teatro del Fondo: & P.O. Do.
34. Chiaga from the Vittoria hotel. Do.
35. From E. Marina: near Piazza Mercatile
36. Near the Mole. Naples. <10>
37. Neapolitan fishing boat.
38.’ Beautiful obelisk. Naples.
bracket symbol - right 39.’ Sa Lucia. Naples. from villa de Roma.
40.’ Do.
bracket symbol - right 41.’ Do from the parapet.
42.’ Do.
43.’ From Hotel des Etrangers. Naples.
44.’
bracket symbol - right 45. Bay of Baić: from little [illegible]
46. Do.
47. Castle of Baić.
48. Temple of Jupiter. do.
49. Baić Castle.
50. Street at Pompeii leadng to Forum.
51. House of Sallust: Vesuvius behind. <11>
52. Forum, looking to Vesuvius.
53. Do looking to S. Angelo Lapazza.
54. From the S. part of Forum. Pompeii
55. House of the great Mosaic. Do. <12>
56. Castle of S. Angelo. Rome.
57. Forum. Do.
58. House of Rienzi. Do.
59. View from S. of the Capitol. Do.
60. Colosseum. Do.
61. Ponte rotto. Do.
62. Solar obelisk of Augustus: Do.
63. Vatican. Do.
64. Ponte S. Angelo. do.
65. St. Peters. Do
66. Bridge of Castle of S. Angelo. S. Peters behind <13>
67. Colosseum. Do. 2nd view. <14>
68. Sa Maria Maggiore. Do
69. View near ponte rotto. Do
70. Temple of Vesta, & Rienzi’s house. do. <15>
71. S. Giovanni. Laterano. Do
bracket symbol - right 72. Forum of Trajan.
73. Do.
74. Horses on Monte Cavallo.
75. Temple of Antoninus & Faustina.
76. Statue of M. Aurelius. Capitol.
77. Port Ripetes. Rome.
78. Sa Ma Maggiore. back view.
79. Capitol stairs. Rome
80. Arch of Titus. Do.
81. Rape of the Sabines. Florence.
82. Do 2nd view.
83. Ponte vecchio. Do.
84. Ponte Sa Trinitŕ. Florence.
85. On the Lung’Arno. do.
86. Piazza Sa Trinita [sic]. do.
87. Piazza gran Duce. Do.
88. Depeit[?]
89. Campanile of Duomo. do
90. Ponte Vecchio. do.
91. Hercules & Cacus. do.
92. Piazza maggiore. Bologna.
93. Piazza del Gigante. do.
94. Do. 2nd view.
95. Piazza maggiore. 2nd view.
bracket symbol - right 96. Milan cathedral.
97.
98. do
99. Do
100. Do.
101. S. Stefano in broglio Do.
102. Garden pump.

Notes:

1. See Doc. No: 05682.

2. Jones’ uncle recently died.

3. Nicolaas Henneman (1813–1898), born in Holland and trained in Paris, was WHFT’s valet who emerged as his assistant in photography. Henneman set up his Calotype works at 8 Russell Terrace, Reading. Commencing operations at the start of 1844, it functioned both as a photographic studio and as a photographic printing works and continued through late 1846, at which time Henneman transferred his operations to London. Although Talbot supported Henneman through custom, such as printing the plates for The Pencil of Nature, and loans, it was always Henneman's operation. His business cards made no mention of "The Reading Establishment," the designation that it is popularly given today; the only contemporary use of that title seemed to be by Benjamin Cowderoy - see Doc. No: 05690 - and in Henneman's initial correspondence with WHFT. Note that Jones capitalises the town of Reading but not 'establishment' - his meaning is presumably Henneman's establishment at Reading, rather than a reference to a proper name.

4. (see note 3)

5. For Jones's list of "Large Talbotypes," see Doc. No: 05563.

6. For this image see ‘Royal Naval Hospital from the main harbour, Valetta’, reproduced in Larry J. Schaaf, Sun Pictures Catalogue Five: The Reverend Calvert R. Jones (New York: Hans P. Kraus, Jr, Inc, 1990), p. 37.

7. For this image see ‘Cathedral Messina, Sicily’, reproduced in Schaaf, Sun Pictures Five, pp. 40,41. This and the following image can be joined together in a panorama; Jones called these images ‘panoramic joiners’.

8. For tis image see ‘Chiatamone, Naples’, reproduced in Schaaf, Sun Pictures Five, p. 33.

9. For this image see ‘Health Office, Naples’, reproduced in Schaaf, Sun Pictures Five, p. 51.

10. For this image see ‘Near the Mole, Naples’, reproduced in Schaaf, Sun Pictures Five, p. 50.

11. For this image see ‘House of Sallust, Vesuvius behind, Pompeii’, reproduced in Schaaf, Sun Pictures Five, p. 52.

12. For this image see ‘House of the Great Mosaic, Pompeii’, reproduced in Schaaf, Sun Pictures Five, p. 52.

13. For this image see ‘Bridge & Castle of St Angelo, St Peters in the distance, Rome’, reproduced in Schaaf, Sun Pictures Five, p. 47.

14. For this image see ‘Colosseum, Rome, 2ndview’, reproduced in Schaaf, Sun Pictures Five, p. 45.

15. For this image see ‘Temple of Vesta and Rienzi’s house, Rome’, reproduced in Schaaf, Sun Pictures Five, p. 46.