Heathfield.
April 27. 1848.
Dear Sir,
I percieve [sic] that there is a difference in the account of what I sent you as owing to me for the Negatives which you retained last Autumn, and the acct which you send me as being due to me. This is explained by my having no list as to quality of what you kept; I concluded that those you had taken were all marked A <1> and put them down accordingly, as however you have entered them from the marked negatives themselves yours of course is the correct sum.
I shall beg Henneman <2> to deduct the last 24 sheets of Iodised paper, <3> as more than that quantity out of the two last consignments was utterly worthless, which I told him when last in London.
I have tried several times since to procure some from him, but have always been told that there was none.
I am sorry for your sake as well as mine that some of the Italian negatives, of which I begged for copies, have been mislaid, as some of them were as good specimens as I ever did.
I conclude from what you said in your last note that you are going to dispose of the London establishment <4>
I shall write to ask Henneman for copies of all those Negatives which you have retained.
The weather has been so bad and dark that I have done little since the Winter
Yours very truly
Calvert R. Jones.
Notes:
1. See Doc. No: 06027.
2. Nicolaas Henneman (1813–1898), Dutch, active in England; WHFT’s valet, then assistant; photographer.
3. Paper prepared for making calotype negatives.
4. 122 Regent Street, London: base of Nicolaas Hennemans’ Talbotype or Sun Picture Rooms, later the firm of Henneman & Malone, photographers to the Queen.