A Manual Of Photography

APPENDIX. The following correspondence, important in tire history of pho- tography, appeared in the Times newspaper of August 13, 1852. THE PHOTOGRAPHIC PATENT RIGHT. We have been requested to publish the following corre- spondence between the Presidents of the Royal Society and the Royal Academy, and the patentee of the art of photography upon paper, with the view of definitively settling a question of con- siderable interest to artists and amateurs of photography in general:— 1J No. 1. London, July, 1852. Dear Sir,—In addressing to you tins letter, we believe that we speak the sentiments of many persons eminent for their love of science and art. The art of photography upon paper, of which you are the inventor, has arrived at such a degree of perfection that it must soon become of national importance ; and we are anxious that, as the art itself originated in England, it should also receive its further perfection and development in this country. At present, however, although England continues to take the lead in some branches of the art, yet in others the French are unquestionably making more rapid progress than we are.