TALBOT8373

Haymarket
April 16^th 1861

Sir

I regret your not joining the Comp^{y 1} at its formation as your experience advice and cooperation must have been beneficial – Individually I shall always be most desirous to have you with us – but you must remember I am one only of a number & if our affairs become so successful as to make it worth your while to join it the other members may not be so alive to what Photography owes you as myself

I remain Sir Your obedient Serv^t
J Hogarth

The Hon^ble Fox Talbot
&c.