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Document number: 4205
Date: 04 Mar 1841
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: HUNT Robert
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA41-014
Last updated: 5th April 2010

Falmouth

March 4 – 1841

Sir

I return you many thanks for your very prompt and obliging reply – and also for those very beautiful Specimens of your new process <1> which indeed promises to realize many of my dreams –

I have just read your letters <2> in the Lity Gazette <3> – I shall be most anxious for the time to arrive when I may be myself enabled to practise the Calotype – As my circumstances render it necessary – I should employ my wits for the benefit of my family – may I enquire what sum you would require for license to use your process – so far as to enable me to prepare and sell the prepared paper, portraits, and general views – Of course I mean after publication of it –

I am Sir with much respect yours Obediently
Robt Hunt

H Fox Talbot


Notes:

1. This was WHFT's calotype process, which used a developer to bring out a latent image, much reducing exposure times.

2. Doc. No: 04191, and Doc. No: 04195.

3. The Literary Gazette and Journal of belles lettres, science and art.

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