Has 50 copies of JH's paper ['On the Action of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum on the Daguerreotype Plate'] for P.M. printed exclusively for JH. Asks opinion of papers for next issue of Scientific Memoirs.
Has 50 copies of JH's paper ['On the Action of the Rays of the Solar Spectrum on the Daguerreotype Plate'] for P.M. printed exclusively for JH. Asks opinion of papers for next issue of Scientific Memoirs.
Regarding his brother-in-law's sale of property. Sorry he was unable to meet him at Dover recently. Mother in good health.
Regarding the deeds for CB's brother-in-law. Is sorry that CB could not see the blasting of the cliffs at Dover.
Note of thanks for paper of JH's; replies with a printing of a talk by FB about William Herschel.
Thanks for his paper on the Earth. Wishes his own Cape work was finished and of the same standard as FB's work. Regarding support for Dr. W. B. O'Shaughnessy when his election to the R.S.L. is being considered.
Will start work on the Southern Constellations without delay. Thanks for his remarks on W. B. O'Shaughnessy.
Regarding his own support for W. B. O'Shaughnessy. Star reform in the Southern hemisphere.
Agrees to provide Josiah Quincy with extracts from letters by James Grahame. Highlights of Grahame's life.
Thanks for the 'exquisite specimen of Daguerreotype.' Speculates on the possibility of making Daguerreotype portraits small enough to be set in rings or in shirt pins.
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