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Dear Sir,

I am delighted to hear of your discovery ¹ which I consider a very great one. The only difficulty now will be, & I am sure your genius will overcome this also, to get a Paper having such a surface as to preserve those sharp lines and minute markings which are so beautiful in the Daguerreotype.

I have just written to Prof^r Napier ² to ask him to allow me to delay, for another Quarter, my article ³ on the Daguerreotype & Photogenic Drawing, and I have no doubt he will do it.

I would have thanked you sooner for your letter; ⁴ but it was sent after me to Lord Grays ⁵ where I had been for some days and unfortunately missed me.

I shall be be very anxious to hear of your success with Portraits. ⁶ Do send me one of yourself.

I am Dear Sir Ever Most Faithfully yrs
D Brewster

S^t Andrews
Oct^r 18^th 1840