TALBOT6000

Heathfield.
Oct^br 5. 1847.

Dear Sir,

I have sent to Henneman ¹ for the coloured Talbotypes, ² and am very much surprised that my wishes about them could in any way be misunderstood, as in all verbal and written communications about them I have invariably begged to have them sent back if you did not want them, and that they sh^d not be sold to anyone but you, or publicly exhibited, or copied.

With respect to the copies at a nominal price sent me by Henneman, for me to colour, “upon the express condition that they were not to be disposed of except thro his establishment. ³” The only copies at a reduced price which I ever had were a number of bad copies which I chose at Reading ⁴ last November, thinking that they w^d do for colouring. I found however afterwards that they w^d not answer, and have sent them to you today to prove that I c^d not use them.

I believe I paid for them in M^r Cowderoy’s ⁵ bill last March, if so it is no matter, if however I did not do so, I am ready to pay the reduced price for them, but they are no use to me.

To obviate any misunderstandings which may arise respecting the Negatives of mine which Henneman has; I think it best to beg you to authorise him to send them to me as soon as convenient, as I can manage the copying part very well.

I have enclosed some faulty Negatives which I have touched, and I hope cured, I shall be much obliged for a copy of each as before.

I have a few more faulty ones, which you begged me to remedy, and I will try and do so the first opportunity.

By this post I have written to beg Henneman to send me copies of some of my Negatives which I have never recieved [sic].

Yours very truly
Calvert R. Jones.