TALBOT8327

Haymarket
March 6^th/61

Sir

In consequence of a letter received from a friend who is much more competent to advise in the matter of Companys than I am I write to ask you whether you will grant a licence for the use of your patent ¹ and if so upon what terms in order to its being worked either with M^r Pretschs ² or by itself as circumstances or improvements may render desirable

M^r Pretsch would rather submit his specimens to you himself and if there is any chance of our coming to terms he and I would wait upon you on Friday

The favour of a reply by return will oblige as an Engagement which I must enter upon on Monday will so absorb my time for the next three weeks that I shall not be able to enter upon other [illegible].

I write in haste to save Post & if I am not sufficiently clear in my statement, M^r Dupasquiers letter ³ may render my meaning more intelligible

I am Sir Your obedient Servant
J Hogarth

M^r Hen^y Fox Talbot
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