TALBOT6756

Royal Panopticon of Science & Art ¹
Leicester Square
15^th April 1853

Sir,

In reply to your favour of the 12^th inst. I am directed to state that this Corporation are desirous of receiving a license as previously proposed (Viz One hundred guineas for the first year, and one hundred and fifty for each succeeding year) and not as suggested in your letter, “on payment of a royalty of one fourth, or 25 per Cent, on the Portraits actually sold”

The Corporation will therefore be glad if you can expedite the matter by putting your Solicitor in communication with the Solicitor to this corporation, /M^r Ottaway 39 Essex Strand

I am Sir, Yours obediently
T. L. Brown
Secretary

H. F. Talbot Esqre