Heathfield. ^<1>
Oct^br 23^rd 1847.

Dear Sir,

I am glad you were pleased with M^r Harding ^<2> he is a superior man.

I saw the coloured Talbotypes ^<3> after they came from the Dean of Westminster ^<4>, and did not observe any fly marks on them.

The account you sent me of Harrison’s ^<5> agrees entirely with what I before said. The copies which I bought Nov. 27. 1847 [sic] ^<6> and from which 50 pr cent was deducted were the faulty ones which I sent to you the other day, none of which I was able to colour: all that I have coloured were perfect copies with a few exceptions. I therefore calculated on giving you 3^s a piece for all good copies, and as I offered you the large coloured ones at 15^s each, I sh^d only gain 12^s for colouring. It is however useless to speak of this now as you did not wish to take them.

I have given the negatives to a good judge to value, as it will be satisfactory to me (as I have no doubt it will be to you) to hear the opinion of a good photographer, and an unprejudiced person. I am ignorant of what price he may set upon them, but am willing to abide by it, I do not however wish you to do so, if you do not like it, and am ready to take a sum for the whole “en masse”.

The numbers which I shall soon send to Henneman ^<7> are 57 large and 115 small copies; I also left with him in London last May 33 large, and 36 small copies, making therefore altogether what I now have to dispose of

Large.	Small.
33	115
57	36
–	–
90	151

If you wish me to value or have valued separately those which I left with Henneman, it will of course be necessary to send them to me.

I add a list of Maltese Italian, and other views the Negatives of which I sold to you and have never received a copy. I have often asked Henneman for them but he tells me that you have the negatives. I shall be extremely obliged for these copies as some of them are particularly fine.

	12.	Library of Governors Palace. Valetta
	17.	Ancient carriage of the grand Masters
	38.	Neapolitan fishing boat and men.
	54.	From the south part of the Forum. Pompeii
	71.	S. Giovanni Laterano. Rome.
	81.	Group of the Rape of the Sabines. Florence
	82.
	92.	Piazza maggiore. Bologna
	94.	Piazza del Gigante. Do
	95.
	122.	Swiss Cottage Singleton.
	125.	Old Houses. Wind Street. Swansea.
	141.	Cambrian & Gloster place. do
	149.	Ship’s boat aground.
	154	Views of Veranda.
	155.
	166.	Brig aground leakey.
	169.	Back yard. Veranda.

More than half the above are some of the most successful views I ever took, you may therefore easily understand how very anxious I am to have them, with my best hopes of soon doing so, I am

yours very truly
Calvert R. Jones

[enclosure:]

Small Talbotypes.
	Sent from Heathfield. Octbr 21. 1847.
	60.	Vessels aground. Ilfracombe	B – <8>
	61.	Schooner Do Do	B –
	62.	Boys do Do	A
	63.	Captn Davis. Capstan. do	A
	64	Ilfracombe pilots.	–
	65.	Sailors do	–
	66.	Old Houses. Ilfracombe pier.	C
	67	Boys. and boat. do	C
	68	Old Houses near the pier. do.	A
	69	Hillsborough from Ilfracombe pier.	B –
	70
	71	Sailors.	– A
	72	Rocks near Ilfracombe.	A
	73
	74	Rocks at Morte. N. Devon.	A
	75	Do another view.	– A
	76	Cottages at Morte.	B –
	77	Do near Morte church.	B –
	78.	Rocks near Capstan hill. Ilfracombe.	CB
	79	Ilfracombe harbour.	C –
	80
	81	Do do	B –
	82
	83	Back of Capstan hill.	B –
	84.	Ilfracombe pilots on the pier.	A
	85.	Boys. do–	A
	86	Do do–	A –
	87	Do do–	A
	88	Group of Donkey men & women	AIlfracombe
	89.	Do of men	Ado
	90	Do of men and women.	Ado
	91	Do do	A
	92	Portraits Mrs Russell Kendall & Mrs Calvert Jones	A –
	93	Italian organ man. different positions	A –
	94
	95
	96
	97.	Old beggar man	A –
	98.	Ships aground Swansea	C
	99.	Schooners masts. do	C
	100.	Part of smack’s quarter.	C B
	101.	Ships long boat on deck.	C B
	102.	Foremast of Do (Chelydra)	C
	103.	Ships capstan and quarter deck.	C
	104	Steering wheel and poop.	B
	105	Capstan and figure. Swansea pier.	B
	106	Brigs stern and quarter (joins 121 at x).	C
	107	Ships caboose, or cooking fireplace.	C
	108	Mainmast and hatchway (Chelydra)	C
	109	Head and bow. do	C
	110	Different groups of Swansea pilots.	A
	111
	112
	113
	114	Soldiers. (52nd Lt Infantry)	A
	115
	116
	117
	118	Sloops forecastle, and details.	B
	119	Do end of bowsprit.	A
	120	Ships deck, looking towards the poop.	A
	121.	Swansea river. (Joins 106 at x)	– C
	122	Groups at Nettlecombe court.	A
	123
	124
	125
	126	Dunster market house.	A
	127.	Monksilver house.	A
	128	Monksilver church (different details)	A.A.B.
	129.
	130
	131	Dunster Castle.	C–
	132	Old house. Minehead	– A–
	133	Well. do	B
	134.	Ancient house. Minehead	A
	135	Cleeve abbey. near Nettlecombe	A AA
	136
	137
	138	Interior. Nettlecombe great hall.	C –
	139	“Tom Wade”. Wenvoe Castle	AB

Large Talbotypes
	Lent from Heathfield Octbr 23. 1847.
	206.	Fishing smacks – Swansea	B –
	207.	Cuba ship. and Jersey yawl.	A –
	208.	Copper ore ships. Swansea
	209	Eastern copper ore yards. with ships
	210	Combe-martin bay.
	211
	212	Watermouth house.
	213.	Rocks near Ilfracombe.	– B –
	214	Street. do
	215	Light house. Ilfracombe.
	216.	Street. Ilfracombe. looking to Coronation Terrace <9>
	217	Ilfracombe from Hillsborough.	– B – C
	218
	219	Old Houses Ifracombe [sic].	A
	220	Ilfracombe from Capstan hill.
	221
	222.	Ilfracombe pier.
	223	Ilfracombe Church.
	224	Ilfracombe harbour from the East.
	225
	226	Ifracombe [sic] from Coronation Terrace.
	227
	228.	Old houses on the pier Ilfracombe.	B –
	229	Back of Ilfracombe pier.	B –
	230
	231	Vessels aground Ilfracombe.	.A
	232	Ilfracombe pier from Sir Bourchier Wray’s house
	233	Do harbour from Do
	234	Hillsborough from Capstan hill.
	235	Ilfracombe from the Tors.
	236
	237	Nettlecombe Court.
	238	Do general view.	B
	239	Do Church	B –
	240	Do with part of the house
	241	Large Beech tree do
	242.	Dunster market house from the South	B –
	243.	Do with the Castle in the distance.
	244	Dunster street and Castle.	B –
	245	Minehead pier.	B –
	246	Wenvoe Castle. Glamorgan. from the S. Terrace	B –
	247	Do from the North.	B –
	248.	Hadzor house. Worcestershire	B
	249	Terrace at do	C
	250	Westwood house. Worcestershire. general view	C
	251	Do from the garden.	C
	252	Do front view.	D –
	253	Do do	D –
	254	Do Gatehouse.	D
	255	Hadzor church.	B –
	256	Swansea. from the Graig. <10> Heathfield.	B –
	257
	258	View in Swansea harbour.	B –
	259
	260.	Ships aground do	A –
	261.	Italian boy from a picture by Müller <11>	D
	262.	Dutch vessels aground. from do by Cooke <12>	D
	263	Do	D

Q Sir Walter Trevelyan ^<13>

N^o 3 ^<14>

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Notes:

1. Swansea.

2. James Duffield Harding (1797–1863), painter, writer on art theory and teacher of among others John Ruskin and Jones himself.

3. Although WHFT modestly prefered the term calotype, Jones and other loyal friends honoured the inventor by calling these Talbotypes, in direct parallel with the use of the term Daguerreotype. Jones was experimenting with colouring the salt prints, an approach that eventually proved unsatisfactory to both WHFT and himself. See the examples in Larry J. Schaaf, Sun Pictures Catalogue 5: The Reverend Calvert R. Jones (New York: Hans P. Kraus, Jr., Inc., 1990).

4. William Buckland (1784–1856), geologist at Oxford University, who was appointed Dean of Westminster 1845.

5. Alfred Edwin Harrison, bookkeeper for Henneman and his brother David Harrison, who was employed by WHFT in 1846.

6. Should be 1846. [See Doc. No: 06000].

7. Nicolaas Henneman (1813–1898), Dutch, active in England; WHFT’s valet, then assistant; photographer.

8. Individual characters following titles are in another hand throughout. [See Doc. No: 06139].

9. Welsh: ‘rock’.

10. Possibly ‘Italian Boy with a Guinea-pig’ painted 1836 by William James Müller (1812–1845) and in the possession of the National Museums & Galleries of Wales.

11. Possibly ‘Dutch Boats in Calm’ painted 1843 by Edward William Cooke (1811–1880) and in the possession of Tate.

12. For this image see ‘Street, Ilfracombe, Coronation Terrace in the distance’, reproduced in Larry J. Schaaf, Sun Pictures Catalogue Five: The Reverend Calvert R. Jones (New York: Hans P. Kraus, Jr, 1990), pp. 62, 63.

13. In a slightly different hand. Sir Walter Trevelyan (1797–1879), temperance campaigner, geologist and botanist.

14. Written in another hand.