TALBOT5229

Birmingham April 14. 1845

Sir,

I am now desirous to take a licence to use your patent for photographic portraits, and will on hearing that you are at home, remit one hundred pounds.

I have not come to this conclusion from anything that I saw at M. Claudets, for there I was disappointed, but from the beautiful specimens in your pencil of nature. I do not presume to dictate terms to you but should like to have an exclusive licence for Manchester, for I expect a good many difficulties to contend with. ¹

Please address me at M^r Brooke Evans, Islington, in this place, where I expect to remain for the next two or three weeks.

I have the honor to be Sir,Very obediently yours
Thomas Wyatt

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H Fox Talbot Esq^re

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