Lincolns Inn <1>
24 Jany 1852
My dear Sir
The case <2> was reported in the Times <3> M. Chronicle M. Herald Post & New Daily News and most likely in the rest - & I saw it in 2 Evening papers. - Greater publicity could hardly have been given -
If the Athenaeum & the Lit: Gazette make no notice of it, You may in the following week have an insertion in both & in the former only to favour Mr Dilke.-<4>
I sent You a form Yesterday for the Agreemt & Licence to Mr Locke which requires your consideration as to certain amplifications of mine -
To return to the advertisement, if You insert one it must be against the Colls <5> by name - if You hesitate about this, & I fully participate in Your wish for conciliation under the circumstances, they having struck their flag, I cannot think that greater publicity is needed than has been given, without an appearance of harshness -
believe me to remain Ever Your's faithfully
J H Bolton
Notes:
1. One of the four Inns of Court, the 'colleges' of barristers at the English Bar. Bolton had his chambers (lawyer's offices and, at the time, living-quarters also) there.
2. On 22 January 1852, Talbot had obtained an injunction against Richard Colls, photographer, London, to prevent him from making and selling photographic prints without a licence. See Rupert Derek Wood, "J.B. Reade, F.R.S., and the Early History of Photography; Part II. Gallic Acid and Talbot's Calotype Patent," Annals of Science, v. 27 no. 1, March 1971, pp. 52-53 and passim.
3. "Vice-Chancellors Courts, before Sir J. Parker," The Times, 23 January 1852, p. 7.
4. Charles Wentworth Dilke (1789-1864), antiquary & critic.
5. Richard Colls and his brother Lebbeus.