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Document number: 6789
Date: 16 May 1853
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: JONES Calvert Richard
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 24th December 2009

20. Motcombe street
Belgrave square
16. May 1853

Dear Sir,

I am much obliged by your kind offer of some of your new Etchings <1> which I have been very anxious to see.

We are staying here at present, will you therefore be so good as to direct them as above.

There are some remarkably fine Talbotypes now exhibiting in Bond street. <2>

I have an idea of a Binocular Camera <3> which wd have a good effect artistically, and which I shd like to see carried out.

Believe me yours very truly
Calvert R. Jones

Notes:

1. This would have been examples of WHFT's recently patented ‘Photographic Engravings’.

2. The Photographic Institution on Bond Street, which was opened as a business by Joseph Cundall (1818–1875) in 1852, had a photographic exhibition from April to September 1853.

3. Jones must have developed this idea rapidly, since it was published five days later in The Journal of the Photographic Society, v.1 no.5, 21 May, 1853, pp. 61-62. The camera was constructed so as to take panoramas constituted by two adjoining photographs, also called panoramic joiners.

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