TALBOT5069

Mount Edgcumbe ¹
15^th September

My Dear Henry

Have you seen an advertisement which professes to sell at N^o 98 Cheapside not only photographic cameras, but iodine boxes, bromine pans, iodized paper & every chemical preparation & apparatus required in Photography, with full instruction given to purchasers, & shortly will be published Plain directions for obtaining Pictures on Paper by the Calotype Process. How can they do all this without a licence from you?² Claudet too I see advertises the Talbotype Portraits almost every day in the Times. ³ –

It is very odd one cannot squeeze an Answer out of you, so often as I have written – ! The Subscription progresses, at present it is quite dans la haute Aristocratie ⁴

Aff^ly y^rs
E F

You cannot be so occupied in the Evenings that you have not a moment to write – I do not like to go on writing when perhaps you are gone abroad – This moment have they given me your Letter ⁵ which is a great comfort as I did not know what was become of you – Have you ascertained how many Pencils of Nature ⁶ are left? as it is useless to mention it to anybody or give a Prospectus if they are all gone

[envelope:]
H. Fox Talbot Es^r
31. Sackville Street
London