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Heathfield. ¹

June 4^th 1841.

My dear Sir

I return you many, many thanks for your prompt kindness in sending me the note to M. Biot, ² and for the beautiful Calotypes, with which I was really delighted the marble head ³ is equal to one of M. Angelo’s drawings, and the small bit of Laycock wonderfully pictorial and strong, also the large one of the back yard – sunny in the extreme, the foliage I think brighter than any one on silver ⁴ that I have seen.

These specimens have charmed me so much that I am very anxious to learn the method before we go. You can best tell me whether any oral instruction is very necessary (in many such cases it is) if it sh^d be so I would take advantage of your kind offer of speaking to me on the subject.

We propose leaving here ⁵ the 19^th and to go from Southampton to Havre, but as M^rs Jones wishes to stay 2 days at Clifton ⁶ I might run up to London if you sh^d be there on the 20 and 21^st should it be desirable to do so.

I should imagine that a stock of best English paper w^d be at all events a sine quâ non; ⁷ my only apology for intruding on your valuable time is the great interest I take in the subject, and the just appreciation of very high services, unrivalled in my opinion to the cause of art

yours very truly
Calvert R Jones J^nr