TALBOT6604

Kensal Green ¹
May 3 / 52

Sir/

I thank you sincerely for the handsom present you made me on account of my loss of the exhibition contract. ² I here with send you a few possetives of wish I mentioned the little girl smiling was done in one second the other in two, the gentleman (the father of the apprentice in Regent S^t and the princepell writer for the Advertizer) in three seconds, the possetives are done in Cansons Freres paper (thick) the proportions are four white of Eggs, 6 oz of water and one oz of Salt the nitra of Silver was 100 grs to the oz but I find it matters not how strong the nitra is provided you have on excess, for the last Sheets I dipped in the Solution turned out failures owing that the Solution was not Strong enough, wish I tried by evaporating one oz of it it did not contain 50 gms of nitra of Silver, it likewise requires the Sheet to be left a sertain time or els you get the Same result as if your nitra was to weak, I am confident you will be pleased to see the arrangement here even without the new shops, when they are ready I would under take to execute such an order like the Exhibition (18000) ³ in one month I will prove thiss to your satisfaction when you come here, I enclose you a letter from Lerebours ⁴ and Should feel greatly Obliged if you would lett me know wath answer I am to send him I think it worthwhile exepting his offer, please to direct, Monument House Kensall Green, I Should like to give thiss house a other name wath do you think of Calling it Talbotype, photographic Printing Establisment,⁵ as soon as the new rooms are ready (whom by the by, they have not yet began ) the Duke of Willengton, the Marquis of Lansdown ⁶ and a great many of the nobility have seen the Talbotypes for the Stereoscope ⁷ at Professor Wheatstones ⁸ room at Kings College and Where highly delighted with them, Sir D Brewster ⁹ is in town he is going to write an article on the Stereoscope I think M^r Wheatstone will come in for his part ¹⁰,

your Obidient Servant
N Henneman