TALBOT6496

6 Stratford Place
Oxford St. 31^st Oct 1851

Sir.

I am directed by Lord Dudley Stuart¹ to acknowledge the receipt of your note of yesterday: and to say that pressing engagements, prevents his doing:

He has instructed me to inform you, that the request of M^r Henneman ² has been laid before M Kossuth ³ who answered, that he should decline sitting to any Artists unless they were Hungarian, as he thought it was nothing but right, that his Countrymen should have the benefit, if any should accrue: On his Lordships representation that M^r Henneman’s was a particular branch of the art, in which there was little or no competition: M. Kossuth consented to sit to him, upon this understanding: that if any profit should result, from such sitting it should be given to the Hungarian Refugees.

I am Sir Your ob^t Serv^t
Jno: Kidd

H. F. Talbot Esq