[printed notepaper:]
1 Hillside Crescent, Edinburgh
18 March 1863
My dear Sir,
Herewith I have the pleasure of sending you in a bin, the glass Teneriffe plate desired for the Astronomical volume, and also, in consequence of what you kindly said yesterday, a second plate of the same view, but from a different negative.1
Both plates are sadly full of faults spots & accidents; but yet I trust that all these can be eliminated by the method of comparing together the two different plates of the same subject, & much more completely and certainly than by any rectification by hand performed on one of them, or by the vain task of seeking a perfect photograph.
It will be duly mentioned in the book how imperfect were the photographs put into your hand.
.Yours very truly
C. Piazzi Smyth
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