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My dear Sir

The slides ¹ will I dare say be here tomorrow morning, as they have left Town – & then we will see what a fair experiment on your process ² makes of it.

I can shew you pictures on Mica which I have used instead of glass for Collodion – Paper has been proposed instead of the glass in some of the numbers of the Photographic Society’s ³ Journal. If you wish me to make any other exact experiments besides the one with the positive process, let me know. My assistant ⁴ is to try your ordinary (original Calotype process. If he fails I shall try it myself, if he succeeds you can have no more triumphant proof of its success & correctness.

I shall be in Town on Saturday next or perhaps on Friday afternoon & shall take the earliest opportunity of calling on your Solicitor ⁵.

Believe me, always Yours very truly
Nevil Story-Maskelyne

Ashmolean Museum ⁶
Oxford.
Dec^r 3. 1854.

[at top of p. 1 above salutation:] I will bring your collodion-paper negative ⁷ with me unless you want it earlier.