TALBOT6154

In order to prevent any future mistake or cause of misunderstanding it is agreed between W. H. F. Talbot Esquire on the one hand and Mess^rs Henneman and Malone ¹ on the other part, to explain alter and amend their agreement bearing date yesterday, and also the license bearing date yesterday granted by W. H. F. Talbot to them, in manner following, that is to say – The license shall only be understood to extend to the use of such parts of the patents as relate to the Talbotype, otherwise called Calotype or Photography on paper –

No deduction shall be made by Henneman and Malone from the payable patent dues on account of commission and expenses of agents employed by them to vend the pictures –

In case Henneman & Malone shall employ as their agent to vend the pictures, any person who has been himself licensed by M^r Talbot to make or vend photographic pictures at a higher rate of percentage than 15 per cent, in that case Henneman & Malone shall pay the same higher rate of percentage on all such pictures as may be sold by the agency of such person aforesaid –

The negatives of portraits made hitherto in the Regent S^t Establishment ² shall be given to H. and M. as a free present.

The set of negatives representing Engravings made by Henneman for M^r Stirling ³ but not belonging to the 66 negatives made for M^r Stirling’s work shall be given to Henneman & Malone on condition of their paying to M^r Talbot 50 per Cent as patent dues on all positive Copies made from the above mentioned Set of negatives Five per Cent Commission to be paid to Henneman and Malone on the sums which may be received hereafter from M^r Stirling for the plates of his abovementioned work and the remaining 95 per cent to be placed to M^r Talbot’s account.

Henneman & Malone hereby declare to have received payment from M^r Talbot of all sums now due by the Establishment in Regent S^t to tradesmen and others, and that they will forthwith apply the said sums to discharge the said claims – Henneman & Malone hereby agree to hold M^r Talbot harmless against all future claims upon the establishment, in respect of debts incurred before the date of these presents, if any such shall at any time hereafter be made –

All the furniture & apparatus at 1 Victoria Terrace, Kensington, belongs to M^r Talbot – & nothing shall be removed without his written consent.

In witness whereof the above named parties have set their hands this [illegible deletion] seventeenth day of June 1848

W. H. F. Talbot
N. Henneman
T A Malone

Witness Rob^t Murray ⁴