La Belle Sauvage Yard,
Ludgate Hill, E.C.
20 Mornington Road
N.W.
London, 1
Jany 17 1859.
Dear Sir
You will perhaps remember that a few weeks before Xmas we had some correspondence respecting a proposal of M. Paul Pretsch 2 to issue some specimens of his Photogalvanographic process in the “Photographic News”; and in consequence of your statement that his plan was considered by you as an infringement of the previous patent which you had taken for photo: engraving, Messrs Petter & Galpin 3 & myself determined not to accept Herr Pretsch’s offer of some plates.
In the last number of the Liverpool Photographic Journal there is a statement that their next number, (published on the 1st of February next) will be illustrated by this process from a plate of M. Pretsch’s. Am I asking too much of your courtesy, to beg that you will use your influence in preventing such publication. I know not what the legal hearings of the case are, but I should think a line from you to the Publisher
Mr H Greenwood 4
32 Castle Street
Liverpool
would be quite sufficient to prevent such a step being taken
Believe me very truly yours
William Crookes.
H. F. Talbot Esqre
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