Heathfield. <1>
Octbr 23rd 1847.
Dear Sir,
I am glad you were pleased with Mr Harding <2> he is a superior man.
I saw the coloured Talbotypes <3> after they came from the Dean of Westminster <4>, and did not observe any fly marks on them.
The account you sent me of Harrison’s <5> agrees entirely with what I before said. The copies which I bought Nov. 27. 1847 [sic] <6> and from which 50 pr cent was deducted were the faulty ones which I sent to you the other day, none of which I was able to colour: all that I have coloured were perfect copies with a few exceptions. I therefore calculated on giving you 3s a piece for all good copies, and as I offered you the large coloured ones at 15s each, I shd only gain 12s for colouring. It is however useless to speak of this now as you did not wish to take them.
I have given the negatives to a good judge to value, as it will be satisfactory to me (as I have no doubt it will be to you) to hear the opinion of a good photographer, and an unprejudiced person. I am ignorant of what price he may set upon them, but am willing to abide by it, I do not however wish you to do so, if you do not like it, and am ready to take a sum for the whole “en masse”.
The numbers which I shall soon send to Henneman <7> are 57 large and 115 small copies; I also left with him in London last May 33 large, and 36 small copies, making therefore altogether what I now have to dispose of
Large. | Small. |
33 | 115 |
57 | 36 |
– | – |
90 | 151 |
If you wish me to value or have valued separately those which I left with Henneman, it will of course be necessary to send them to me.
I add a list of Maltese Italian, and other views the Negatives of which I sold to you and have never received a copy. I have often asked Henneman for them but he tells me that you have the negatives. I shall be extremely obliged for these copies as some of them are particularly fine.
12. | Library of Governors Palace. Valetta | |
17. | Ancient carriage of the grand Masters | |
38. | Neapolitan fishing boat and men. | |
54. | From the south part of the Forum. Pompeii | |
71. | S. Giovanni Laterano. Rome. | |
81. | Group of the Rape of the Sabines. Florence | |
82. | ||
92. | Piazza maggiore. Bologna | |
94. | Piazza del Gigante. Do | |
95. | ||
122. | Swiss Cottage Singleton. | |
125. | Old Houses. Wind Street. Swansea. | |
141. | Cambrian & Gloster place. do | |
149. | Ship’s boat aground. | |
154 | Views of Veranda. | |
155. | ||
166. | Brig aground leakey. | |
169. | Back yard. Veranda. |
More than half the above are some of the most successful views I ever took, you may therefore easily understand how very anxious I am to have them, with my best hopes of soon doing so, I am
yours very truly
Calvert R. Jones
[enclosure:]
Small Talbotypes. | |||
Sent from Heathfield. Octbr 21. 1847. | |||
60. | Vessels aground. Ilfracombe | B – <8> | |
61. | Schooner Do Do | B – | |
62. | Boys do Do | A | |
63. | Captn Davis. Capstan. do | A | |
64 | Ilfracombe pilots. | – | |
65. | Sailors do | – | |
66. | Old Houses. Ilfracombe pier. | C | |
67 | Boys. and boat. do | C | |
68 | Old Houses near the pier. do. | A | |
69 | Hillsborough from Ilfracombe pier. | B – | |
70 | |||
71 | Sailors. | – A | |
72 | Rocks near Ilfracombe. | A | |
73 | |||
74 | Rocks at Morte. N. Devon. | A | |
75 | Do another view. | – A | |
76 | Cottages at Morte. | B – | |
77 | Do near Morte church. | B – | |
78. | Rocks near Capstan hill. Ilfracombe. | |
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79 | Ilfracombe harbour. | C – | |
80 | |||
81 | Do do | B – | |
82 | |||
83 | Back of Capstan hill. | B – | |
84. | Ilfracombe pilots on the pier. | A | |
85. | Boys. do– | A | |
86 | Do do– | A – | |
87 | Do do– | A | |
88 | Group of Donkey men & women | AIlfracombe | |
89. | Do of men | Ado | |
90 | Do of men and women. | Ado | |
91 | Do do | A | |
92 | Portraits Mrs Russell Kendall & Mrs Calvert Jones | A – | |
93 | Italian organ man. different positions | A – | |
94 | |||
95 | |||
96 | |||
97. | Old beggar man | A – | |
98. | Ships aground Swansea | C | |
99. | Schooners masts. do | C | |
100. | Part of smack’s quarter. | |
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101. | Ships long boat on deck. | |
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102. | Foremast of Do (Chelydra) | C | |
103. | Ships capstan and quarter deck. | C | |
104 | Steering wheel and poop. | B | |
105 | Capstan and figure. Swansea pier. | B | |
106 | Brigs stern and quarter (joins 121 at x). | C | |
107 | Ships caboose, or cooking fireplace. | C | |
108 | Mainmast and hatchway (Chelydra) | C | |
109 | Head and bow. do | C | |
110 | Different groups of Swansea pilots. | A | |
111 | |||
112 | |||
113 | |||
114 | Soldiers. (52nd Lt Infantry) | A | |
115 | |||
116 | |||
117 | |||
118 | Sloops forecastle, and details. | B | |
119 | Do end of bowsprit. | A | |
120 | Ships deck, looking towards the poop. | A | |
121. | Swansea river. (Joins 106 at x) | – C | |
122 | Groups at Nettlecombe court. | A | |
123 | |||
124 | |||
125 | |||
126 | Dunster market house. | A | |
127. | Monksilver house. | A | |
128 | Monksilver church (different details) | A.A.B. | |
129. | |||
130 | |||
131 | Dunster Castle. | C– | |
132 | Old house. Minehead | – A– | |
133 | Well. do | B | |
134. | Ancient house. Minehead | A | |
135 | Cleeve abbey. near Nettlecombe | A AA | |
136 | |||
137 | |||
138 | Interior. Nettlecombe great hall. | C – | |
139 | “Tom Wade”. Wenvoe Castle | |
Large Talbotypes | |||
Lent from Heathfield Octbr 23. 1847. | |||
206. | Fishing smacks – Swansea | B – | |
207. | Cuba ship. and Jersey yawl. | A – | |
208. | Copper ore ships. Swansea | ||
209 | Eastern copper ore yards. with ships | ||
210 | Combe-martin bay. | ||
211 | |||
212 | Watermouth house. | ||
213. | Rocks near Ilfracombe. | – B – | |
214 | Street. do | ||
215 | Light house. Ilfracombe. | ||
216. | Street. Ilfracombe. looking to Coronation Terrace <9> | ||
217 | Ilfracombe from Hillsborough. | – B – C | |
218 | |||
219 | Old Houses Ifracombe [sic]. | A | |
220 | Ilfracombe from Capstan hill. | ||
221 | |||
222. | Ilfracombe pier. | ||
223 | Ilfracombe Church. | ||
224 | Ilfracombe harbour from the East. | ||
225 | |||
226 | Ifracombe [sic] from Coronation Terrace. | ||
227 | |||
228. | Old houses on the pier Ilfracombe. | B – | |
229 | Back of Ilfracombe pier. | B – | |
230 | |||
231 | Vessels aground Ilfracombe. | .A | |
232 | Ilfracombe pier from Sir Bourchier Wray’s house | ||
233 | Do harbour from Do | ||
234 | Hillsborough from Capstan hill. | ||
235 | Ilfracombe from the Tors. | ||
236 | |||
237 | Nettlecombe Court. | ||
238 | Do general view. | B | |
239 | Do Church | B – | |
240 | Do with part of the house | ||
241 | Large Beech tree do | ||
242. | Dunster market house from the South | B – | |
243. | Do with the Castle in the distance. | ||
244 | Dunster street and Castle. | B – | |
245 | Minehead pier. | B – | |
246 | Wenvoe Castle. Glamorgan. from the S. Terrace | B – | |
247 | Do from the North. | B – | |
248. | Hadzor house. Worcestershire | B | |
249 | Terrace at do | C | |
250 | Westwood house. Worcestershire. general view | C | |
251 | Do from the garden. | C | |
252 | Do front view. | D – | |
253 | Do do | D – | |
254 | Do Gatehouse. | D | |
255 | Hadzor church. | B – | |
256 | Swansea. from the Graig. <10> Heathfield. | B – | |
257 | |||
258 | View in Swansea harbour. | B – | |
259 | |||
260. | Ships aground do | A – | |
261. | Italian boy from a picture by Müller <11> | D | |
262. | Dutch vessels aground. from do by Cooke <12> | D | |
263 | Do | D |
Q Sir Walter Trevelyan <13>
No 3 <14>
Notes:
1. Swansea.
2. James Duffield Harding (1797–1863), painter, writer on art theory and teacher of among others John Ruskin and Jones himself.
3. Although WHFT modestly prefered the term calotype, Jones and other loyal friends honoured the inventor by calling these Talbotypes, in direct parallel with the use of the term Daguerreotype. Jones was experimenting with colouring the salt prints, an approach that eventually proved unsatisfactory to both WHFT and himself. See the examples in Larry J. Schaaf, Sun Pictures Catalogue 5: The Reverend Calvert R. Jones (New York: Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Inc., 1990).
4. William Buckland (1784–1856), geologist at Oxford University, who was appointed Dean of Westminster 1845.
5. Alfred Edwin Harrison, bookkeeper for Henneman and his brother David Harrison, who was employed by WHFT in 1846.
6. Should be 1846. [See Doc. No: 06000].
7. Nicolaas Henneman (1813–1898), Dutch, active in England; WHFT’s valet, then assistant; photographer.
8. Individual characters following titles are in another hand throughout. [See Doc. No: 06139].
9. Welsh: ‘rock’.
10. Possibly ‘Italian Boy with a Guinea-pig’ painted 1836 by William James Müller (1812–1845) and in the possession of the National Museums & Galleries of Wales.
11. Possibly ‘Dutch Boats in Calm’ painted 1843 by Edward William Cooke (1811–1880) and in the possession of Tate.
12. For this image see ‘Street, Ilfracombe, Coronation Terrace in the distance’, reproduced in Larry J. Schaaf, Sun Pictures Catalogue Five: The Reverend Calvert R. Jones (New York: Hans P. Kraus, Jr, 1990), pp. 62, 63.
13. In a slightly different hand. Sir Walter Trevelyan (1797–1879), temperance campaigner, geologist and botanist.
14. Written in another hand.