TALBOT6599

Museum Pract^l Geology
Jermyn S^t
S^t James’s
26 April 1852

Dear Sir

On receiving your letter I immediately forwarded it to M^r Le Neve Foster ¹ 92 Chancery Lane – with a request that he should write you. I have had a long conversation with M^r Bolton ² and informed him of the objections taken to some of our rules – He will of course write you. I hope to morrow to meet some of the friends of the Society ³ – after which I shall be in a position to say more on the subject.

I must assure you that I desire to occupy perfectly neutral ground in the question. I cannot either directly or indirectly be affected by them – I have every desire to admit your high claims – but I feel it would not be prudent to place you as president of a society – many members of which are disposed to quarrel with your patents. – M^r Fenton ⁴ writes me “Would it not be as well to have a specific clause in the agreement defining the position of the society as a neutral one, so that this position may not be merely an inferential one?” – I really fear that at the present time a Society cannot be founded on a satisfactory basis –

I am Dear Sir Yours very truly
Robert Hunt

M^r Berger’s address is
Well Court
Queen St
City

Hy Fox Talbot Esqr/pr>