TALBOT471

Dec. 17

Dear Grove

I have remedied the defect in the Specimen which is executed conjointly on Iodised Paper, & Collodionized Paper, ¹ which you pointed out, caused by the overlapping of the 2 papers. I [illegible deletion] dismounted them, cut off the overlapping part & then remounted them as before – the image had not penetrated through the front of the paper to its back, therefore your objection (though properly taken) was [illegible deletion] removed on examination – As to M^r Reades claims, ² I believe that he will only produce one specimen done by him before the date of my patent viz. the magnified image of a flea.

Indeed we expect that any other specimens produced by him will be recent ones, made for the purposes of the present Trial. ³

We also think Hunt ⁴ has no specimen of his process described in the Transactions ⁵ for 1840 and that anything shewn by him will be quite recently made.

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Yours truly
H. F. Talbot

P.S. M^r Bolton ⁶ hopes you will object to the Defendant producing copies of my specificat^ns of my other patents, on the grounds that (not only they are nihil ad rem ⁷) but more particularly that the summons to produce the originals were was only served on him at 4 oclock Saturday evening (yesterday)