TALBOT5206

Veranda. Swansea.
March. 10. 1845.

My dear Sir,

I have received the Pencil of Nature N^o. 2. ¹ and cannot forbear expressing my admiration of it; as it appears to exhibit a decided improvement in the paper, even over what you have before effected, the sharpness, evenness and total absence of all stains is to me perfectly wonderful; and it is difficult to imagine the advances which Lady C. Talbot ² mentioned that you had still farther made.

The weather has been of late so cold and dark that I have hardly attempted anything Photographical but anxiously expect the information on your improved methods for which I was a petitioner (sh^d it not be a secret) whenever your valuable time affords an opportunity.

J. D. Llewelyn ³ has been trying some paper which Whatman recommends especially for the Talbotype, ⁴ do you advise the use of it?

Lord Adare⁵ tells me that he met at Parsonstown a gentleman who had made a positive paper, who<se> operation was very simple and rapid.

I trust that by the discoveries of M. Claudets ⁶ relation we shall be able now to get large Lenses much cheaper

Believe me, yours sincerely obliged
Calvert R. Jones J^nr