From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Louis Daguerre
Date:
[1 August 1839]
Source of text:
WT 67390.2
Summary:
On behalf of the Council of the R.S.L., JH writes to LD to request a camera and a hundred plates of Daguerre's about to be announced process, so that the R. S. L. may equip the James Ross expedition to the Antarctic with the means of making a photographic record of the voyage.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project