Veranda.
Novbr 9.
1846.
Dr Sir,
I send you by this Post the remainder of the Negatives which I have as yet done, on the terms you propose.
You are most welcome to two or three copies for your own private use, and I shd like the same Number for mine, I only beg that copies may not be exhibited or sold till we come to an agreement, which really appears very easy on the terms I proposed to you.
I shd be very glad to meet you at Reading <1> this week, but as I am going from home next Monday, shall be too much occupied: however as I am coming nearer to your part of the world, it will be the easier for me run [sic] up from Cardiff and have a talk with you
Yours very truly
Calvert R Jones.
Notes:
1. Nicolaas Henneman (1813–1898), born in Holland and trained in Paris, was WHFT’s valet who emerged as his assistant in photography. Henneman set up his Calotype works at 8 Russell Terrace, Reading. Commencing operations at the start of 1844, it functioned both as a photographic studio and as a photographic printing works and continued through late 1846, at which time Henneman transferred his operations to London. Although Talbot supported Henneman through custom, such as printing the plates for The Pencil of Nature, and loans, it was always Henneman's operation. His business cards made no mention of "The Reading Establishment," the designation that it is popularly given today; the only contemporary use of that title seemed to be by Benjamin Cowderoy - see Doc. No: 05690.