Falmouth
March 30 1843
Dear Sir
Messrs Longman <1> have informed me that it is your intention to publish Calotype views of the Cathedrals &c <2> and have asked me to refer to your production in the work I am engaged on Light considered as a chemical Agent <3> I assure you it will give me the greatest pleasure to do so and I shall feel it a kindness if you will give me some idea of the work you contemplate that we may not both tread the same ground I have been trying the Calotype process within the last few days and I have had uniform success I shall now see about making arrangements to work the process.
I am Dr Sir yours most
respectfully & faithfully
Robt Hunt
Hy Fox Talbot Esqr
[envelope:]
Hy Fox Talbot Esqr
Sackville St
London
or
Lacock Abbey Wiltshire
Notes:
1. Longman & Company, publishers, London.
2. WHFT, The Pencil of Nature (London: Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans, June 1844April 1846 [issued in six fascicles]).
3. Robert Hunt, Researches on light: an examination of all the phenomena connected with the chemical and molecular changes produced by the influence of the solar rays : embracing all the known photographic processes and new discoveries in the art (London : Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, 1844).