London April 26th /47
Mr Talbot
Sir/
You will receive the Case containing the pictures left from stock received at the Establishment<1> also the particulars connected with the affair? I must now beg to decline having any more on commission as I find it will not answer my purpose?
I am Sir Your Obt Sert
Owen Bailey
Talbot'ps Commission
£ s d
10 p
r Cent – 3 ·· 12 ·· 0
Leather Case – . ·· 16 ·· 0
Cab fares to M
r Talbot . ·· 2 ·· 6
Time at Establishment & at M
r Talbots house . ·· 10 ·· 0
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£5 ·· 0 ·· 6
Cash Received
£ s d
M
r Roe Cambridge – 2 ·· 4 ·· 6
– Bailey – 2 ·· 19 ·· 8
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£5 ·· 4 ·· 2
Balance Due M
r T
£. ·· 3 ·· 8
Orders Received for
Talbotypes – by O Bailey
£ s d
M
r Lovejoy (Reading) 1 ·· 15 ·· 8
– Shrimpton Oxford 3 ·· 14 ·· 8
– Wyatt – D
o 1 ·· 7 ·· 0
– Sinnett – D
o 2 ·· 1 ·· 0
– Lomax – Manchester 3 ·· 18 ·· 0
– Agnew –D
o 3 ·· 9 ·· 0
– Bolengaro [sic] D
o 4 ··6 ··4
– Keith – Edinburgh 4 ··0 ··4*
– Bailey (Paid) – 2 ··19 ·· 8x
– Roe Cambridge (Paid) 2 ·· 4 ·· 6x
- Norton Birmingham 4 ·· 1 ·· 6 ‡
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£35 ·· 18 ·· 0
*This should be 6 ·· 0 ·· 8
‡ should be 4 ·· 1 ·· 0
Talbotypes Received
from the Establishment
£ s d
107 at – 3/6 – 18 ·· 14 ·· 6
9 at 5/- – 2 ·· 5 ·· 0
44 at 3/- – 6 ·· 12 ·· 0
12 at 2/- – 1 ·· 4 ·· 0
6 at1/6 – . ·· 9 ·· 0
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£29 ·· 4 ·· 6
Sold from Stock
£ s d
Bailey – – 4 ·· 9 ·· 0
M
r Keith (Edinburgh) 9 ·· 1 ·· 0
– Norton (Birmingham) 6 ·· 1 ·· 6
– Returned – – 9 ·· 13 ·· 0
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£29 ·· 4 ·· 6
[address panel:]
Talbot Esqr
[across back fold, in another hand:]
Bailey’s Accounts with Talbotype’s [sic]