Lincoln’s Inn

21 Feb^y 43 –

W. H. F. Talbot Esq

D^r Sir –

M^r Attorney G^l has decided that the invention of Messrs Johnston <sic> & Wolcott ^<1> does not in any way interfere with the inventions described in your letters – They have deposited with M^r Attorney General full particulars of their claims –

We are Your obt

Poole & Carpmael

W. H. F. Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham

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Notes:

1. John Johnson and Alexander Simon Wolcott, U.K. patent number 9672, 18 March 1843, ‘Photography and its application to the arts’.