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Document number: 6810
Date: 26 May 1853
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: JONES Calvert Richard
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: LA53-24
Last updated: 19th August 2010

20. Motcombe stt
May 26. 1853.

Dear Sir,

Accept my thanks for the beautiful impressions you were so good as to send me, they appear to be as perfect as possible of their kind.<1>

I do not know whether you have yet extended the method to views, but I trust soon to see it adapted to them, as it wd be a great desideratum.

I think you may have the satisfaction of knowing that your method of Photography ( Talbotype <2> proper) is superior practically to Waxed paper, Albuminized do <3> &c or any other that has yet been devised.

The only bar (and I think it quite disgraceful to the manufacturer) is the next to impossibility of procuring good negative paper.

Yours most truly
Calvert R Jones.

Notes:

1. Examples of WHFT's Photographic Engraving process.

2. Although WHFT modestly used the term calotype, Jones and other loyal supporters honoured him by calling these Talbotypes, in parallel with the term Daguerreotype.

3. Photographers often waxed their paper negatives to make them more transparent. The albumen on glass and wet collodion on glass processes were also available.

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