TALBOT5805

Patent Talbotype Establishment,
Reading. ¹

Dec^br 15/46

Sir/

Harison ² was going to Send you the remainder of the Coppies taken from negatives mended by M^r C: Jones, ³ like wise the negatives of the man & Pump ⁴ but as I am going to send these things you ordered in a day or two (I am only waiting for the Large cardboard to mount the double ones ⁵ on – from London) I think it is better to Send them altogether, onless you want them in a hurry then you can write by return of post to that effect I have been trying hard to day to get a good negative of the three graces ⁶ by the new process ⁷ but cant get any thing under 2 minutes 20 seconds with the Small camera, middle aperture, and the day fine for thiss time of the year, so the Porportions you give mee can not be right as I find them Slower than those I tried or we tried at Laycock, the fixing with that seems alright I hope to be able to send you som specimen in the first parcel, I have not coppied one yet as it be gon to snow – I am going to Write to Birmingham, about a bookkeeper ⁸ will let you kno the result as soon as I kno, Shall likewise write to Malone ⁹ to ask if he knows any one to suite us as I think he could get his hand in it and help mee to make experiments here –

your Obedient Servant
N: Henneman

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I think it would well be worth your wile when you go to London to ask Murray (at Newmans) ¹⁰ if he could get us the Servises of that young man that is in Germany and who is so skillful in The Talbotype¹¹ from wath I have heard of him I think he would be verry happy to be engaged in the a buisenes in England of thiss kind – for I am certain if wee take good Portraits the buisenes is sure to answer and he has done finer things I have yet seen and that’s two years ago