TALBOT4774

80 Coleshill Street
Eaton Square – London
23^rd March 1843 –

Sir,

Being about to travel and desirous of making use of your patent Invention ¹ (as applied to the Daguerrotype Process ² and described in the London Repertory ³ of October 1841) for my own private purpose and without any views of gaining pecuniary advantage therefrom, I have applied for information on the subject, but finding you have no recognized Agent in London I venture, under the circumstances stated to take this mode of asking your permission to make use of the Apparatus &c with such restrictions only as you may think it right to impose for your own protection, and should you kindly grant the indulgence I request, would feel obliged by your furnishing me with such further instructions as may conduce to my more perfect success in the use of your patent –

I am, Sir, your obedient Servant
Sampson Freeth
Lieutenant R. Engineers

P.S. Please address to me as above in
care of Colonel Freeth K.H.
A: I: M: General
Horse Guards

William Henry Fox Talbot Esq
Lacock Abbey
Wilts