Agrees to provide Josiah Quincy with extracts from letters by James Grahame. Highlights of Grahame's life.
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Agrees to provide Josiah Quincy with extracts from letters by James Grahame. Highlights of Grahame's life.
Regarding the deeds for CB's brother-in-law. Is sorry that CB could not see the blasting of the cliffs at Dover.
Clarification of priority to the prismatic analysis of the Daguerreotype photograph; comments on the location of a limiting diaphragm in a camera obscura.
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.
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.