TALBOT4205

Falmouth

March 4 – 1841

Sir

I return you many thanks for your very prompt and obliging reply – and also for those very beautiful Specimens of your new process ¹ which indeed promises to realize many of my dreams –

I have just read your letters ² in the Lit^y Gazette ³ – I shall be most anxious for the time to arrive when I may be myself enabled to practise the Calotype – As my circumstances render it necessary – I should employ my wits for the benefit of my family – may I enquire what sum you would require for license to use your process – so far as to enable me to prepare and sell the prepared paper, portraits, and general views – Of course I mean after publication of it –

I am Sir with much respect yours Obediently
Rob^t Hunt

H Fox Talbot