TALBOT6766

122 Regent S^{t 1}
3 May 1853

Sir

I am sory you should be troubled about the ground rent on my account but it is M^r Fishers ² fault he paid the last time and I particular requested him to pay it again when due, as I always employ him in colecting and paying my debts, and likewise to audit the books, it is therefore a neglect on his part, he certainly has been unwell lately and has not been here for two weeks, but I will speak to him about it to morrow when he is coming here--

I hope you will excuse the liberty I take on this occasion to congratulate you on your late and most important important discovery ³, and see now plain enough why you advised me to wait another year before I erected the large manufactory ^<4> at Kensall Green for possitive printing, of course what I have erected there already, will answer very well for all ordinaire purposes now, and altho your discovery will injure me to a great extent, still that is very insignificant with its universell worth-

I am happy to say I am doing pretty well considering the bad weather we have had, and the oppositions lately sett up so near me, if they are succesful at the Panopticon ⁴ I shall get some thing out of that as they have engaged me to teach to a class wich I can do without interfering with my own business as it is only for one hour in the morning (when there is a class)

Your Obidient Servant
N. Henneman

as M^r Fisher has not been here I have send the money and enclose you the receipt