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Document number: 4933
Date: 03 Feb 1844
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: AWDRY West
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA44-4
Last updated: 19th May 2010

Chippenham <1>
3 Feby 1844

Dear Sir,

I annex a Copy of a Letter from Mr Haslam <2> in reply to your last Communication – I am glad to find he adopts your alterations, with some little modification in Clause 5 which appears to me to be unobjectionable – If you agree to the Memdum as it now stands I will send a Copy for Mr Collen’s <3> Signature, and you will in that case have the goodness to say whether he shall remit the Patent dues due at Christmas, to me, or pay the Amount to your Bankers. My Messr is going on to Melksham <4> and shall call on his way back to know if you have any answer – I was glad to find on my return home yesterday that yo the Men who misconducted themselves so much the other day had been sent to Gaol.

I am Dear Sir Your obliged Servt
W. Awdry

[enclosure]

Copy.

Copthall Court London

1st Feby 1844

West Awdry <5> Esq.

Dear Sir,

Mr Collen is agreeable to the Clause (2nd Paragr. of the Copy you sent me of Mr Talbots letter to you of the 29th inst) restricting Mr C. from parting with negative pictures – It may I think stand in the words of that Paragraph and come in between the Clauses which Mr Talbot numbered 1 & 2 –

The Clause which stood last in the Heads of Alterations originally sent to you by me, is you will see not wholly met or provided for by the one proposed by Mr Talbot (5th paragraph of same letter) though no doubt intended to be – I think that paragraph altered as on the other side* will be what Mr Talbot means & what I mean

If now you will send me a fair Copy of the whole, I will get it signed ready to exchange

Yours Dear Sir very truly

W. Haslam

*If Mr Talbot should license any other person to take portraits from the life in London for sale to the public or to make sale of the Copies of such portraits taken from the life at lower prices than One Guinea or at a lower rate of per Centage than 25 per Cent on the selling price he will on so doing give notice to Mr Collen and reduce his rates accordingly.

H.F. Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey


Notes:

1. Chippenham, Wiltshire: largest town near Lacock, 3 miles N.

2. William Haslam, Henry Collen’s solicitor, of Haslam & Bischoff, solicitors, London.

3. Henry Collen (1800–1879), miniature painter, calotypist & spiritualist, London.

4. Melksham, Wiltshire: market town near Lacock, 2 miles S.

5. West Awdry (1807–1892), solicitor, Chippenham.

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