Reading
25 January 1845
Sir
I have not got the negative of the house building with the Scaffolding on it,1 nor the negative of the Cloisters 2 at Laycock Abbey, having taken the copies while at Laycock last September, and you kept the negatives, if you refer to the List of negatives you gave me you will find I am correct. I have at last consented to give a Lecture to the members of the Reading Scientific Institution on the Photography in consequence of a gentlemen expressing his intention of doing so, who I am sure knew nothing of the Subject, but what he had gleaned from newspapers. If you will oblige me with a copy of “Some account of the art of Photogenic Drawing” 3 and any other Papers, also the Literary Gazette containing the first notice 4 of your invention they will be of great use assistance to me; as I intend reading the Lecture, I think I had better make some few extracts from them.
If it meets your approbation I think I shall have an opportunity of getting it noticed in the Times. Do you not think I had better do so? The Secretary of the Institution, who is an intelligent Scientific man, has kindly offered me his assistance on the occasion. I have also asked some information of Mr Keates, 5 on the Daguerrotype to which I shall be obliged to allude, any further information you can favor me with will be very thankfully received.
by Sir Your obdt Servant.
N. Henneman
The Lecture will not take place till March still I shall be greatly obliged by your granting my request as early as convenient.
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