Faraday to John Watkins1   9 April 1861

[Royal Institution embossed letterhead] | 9 April 1861.

My dear Sir

I thank you much for the photographs. I admire them very much but I never can recognize my own likeness. I wonder whether all persons are in this curious condition. You want me again? Well I cannot came before Thursday (11th) morning when I will try to be with you about 10 o’clk.

Ever Truly Yours | M. Faraday

J. Watkins Esq | &c &c &c

John Watkins (d.1874, age 51, GRO). Photographer in Parliament Street. Gernsheim and Gernsheim (1955), 146.

Bibliography

GERNSHEIM, Helmut and GERNSHEIM, Alison (1955): The History of Photography from the earliest use of the camera obscura in the eleventh century up to 1914, Oxford.

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