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

122 Regent S^{t <1>}
7 December 1852

Sir

I supose you have received a circular from the Society for Arts about the Exhibition of Photographic Art ^<2>, and as I understand that the main object is to see wether improvements have been made sints your invention was first brought out, I shall feel greatly Obliged if you would let me have some of the best negatives, so that I may make some possetives from them, please to select the oldest

Your Obedient Servant
N. Henneman

P.S. I think a letter from you to them about the shortnes of notice, and the time of the year for such a interesting exhibition would perhaps induce them to defer it to next summer

[envelope:]
H.F. Talbot Esq^re
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham
Wilts
[flap dry embossed:]
Henneman & Co. Photographers on Paper to the Queen 122 Regent Street

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Notes:

1. 122 Regent Street, London: base of Nicolaas Hennemans’ Talbotype or Sun Picture Rooms, later the firm of Henneman & Malone, photographers to the Queen.

2. See Doc. Nos. 06709 and 06712.