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Dear Sir,

I have delayed answering your kind note of the 17^{th 1} till I sh^d be able to decide whether or not I can go to the Liverpool meeting, ² & even now, I am unable to say what my resolution will be. I have received a few weeks ago the MSS of Sir Isaac Newton from Lord Portsmouth ³ and they are so copious and so full of content, that I find it very difficult to leave them and delay the completion of the second volume of his Life. ⁴ If I knew that you were going that might help me to come to a decision.

You have of course seen the disgraceful attack upon you ⁵ in the last N^o of the Art Journal, which I presume, is written by Hunt. ⁶ I have just been talking on the subject to D^r Adamson ⁷ who has done more in the practice of Photography as an Amateur than any other person I know, and he agrees with me in opinion, that, but for your discoveries there would have been no Photography on Paper, and that the whole invention is yours.

I am Ever Most Truly yrs
D Brewster

S^t Leonards' College
S^t Andrews
Aug^t 31^st 1854