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Add. MS a/207/43
Title
Letter from John Herschel
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- [1 July 1840?] (Creation)
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4 pp
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JH on the prospects of meeting WW and Cordelia Whewell. He encloses a photograph 'which for sharpness of finish - faithful graduation of light...[and] general effect is I think you will admit not equalled. The process is a new one...and is at once the easiest, simplest and cheapest which has yet been devised. - As yet I have not yet become familiar with all the details of fixing, transferring etc but that will come of course'. JH hopes soon to produce pictures in absolute black and white.