Dear Sir,

I enclose the Circular which I sometime since received from M^r Beard ^<1> – for your perusal.

Your obliged & obed Serv^t

West Awdry

Wednesday 3 Aug^t –

H. F. Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey.

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printed circular, titled ‘Photographic, or Daguerreotype Portraiture’ addressed ‘To Capitalists’ for the licence to operate the Daguerreotype process in Wiltshire, setting out terms (£700 down/£450 + 15% on gross receipts/£350 + 20% ditto). Sets out the basis for profitability. Includes notices for the public outlining the attractions of daguerreotype portraiture, giving prices and 10 extracts from Press comments lauding the daguerreotype portrait.

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Notes:

1. Richard Beard (1801–1885), coal merchant & daguerreotypist, London.