[the letter is in the NMM and its envelope in the BL]

[printed lettterhead:]
Talbotype Photographic Rooms, 122 Regent Street, London

13 September 1853

Sir

I have this day sent off per Rail the Chemicals ordered. M^r. Henneman desired me also to send some of Thomas's (as well as Knights) Collodion, that being so very much superior to the latter

I remain Sir Your Obed^t Serv^t
Edmund L. Davis
for Henneman & Co

H. F. Talbot Esq

[envelope:]
H. F. Talbot Esq-
Railway Hotel
Reading
to be called for
[blindstamp seal on verso of envelope:]
Henneman & C^o.
Photographers on Paper to the Queen
122 , Regent Street