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[No. 264. 



■was also deposited in the Tower of London. If 

 he were able to procure a friend, who could assist 

 him in the recovery of the money deposited in the 

 Tower, he had no doubt of again becoming a 

 wealthy man. To satisfy the claim I had on him, 

 he gave me a document, which authorised me to 

 demand from the steward of the gentleman who 

 now held a subordinate title to this land, the 

 proper share that would become due to John 

 Cossentine on the sale of the wood. And when, 

 in consequence of this authority, an application 

 was made to the steward, although he expressed 

 scruple's with regard to the payment to myself, he 

 admitted the claim of Cossentine himself. But 

 this John Cossentine had a son, who was married, 

 and lived in either the same or a neighbouring 

 parish : I do not clearly remember whether it was 

 in the parish of St. Veep or Lanreath. When he 

 became acquainted with tlie nature of my business 

 with liis father, he applied to me on the subject ; 

 and from him also I learnt, that a conviction 

 existed in his family of the general truth of what 

 I had heard from his fathei'. They had, at no 

 remote time, been in possession of this consider- 

 able estate ; but had sold it, except the high lord- 

 ship, which was so far entailed as to be out of 

 their power to dispose of, although the present 

 proprietor in possession had earnestly endeavoured 

 to bring it about. It would have been of much 

 interest to me to have seen the original deeds ; 

 but this was not permitted from some jealousy of 

 the nature of my demand : for the son, although he 

 expected to succeed to his father's rights (and did 

 afterwards actually succeed to them), was by no 

 means inclined td involve himself in any respon- 

 sibility. This family still exists in the same 

 neighbourhood ; and there is, in the neighbouring 

 parish of Lantegloss by Fowey, another family of 

 the same name, and, I have no doubt, of the same 

 descent, whatever that may be. The latter family 

 is of respectable station in life : but whether they 

 assert the same claims, I do not know. Video. 



PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE. 



Photographic Unanimity. — The remarks made by your 

 well-intentioned correspondent J.W. H. (Vol. x., p. 373.) 

 are so entirely in correspondence with my own opinions, 

 and are so well calculated to check the injurious tendency 

 arising from the want of unanimity among photographers 

 generally, that I cannot refrain "from individually ten- 

 dering him my best thanks. 



Whether a gentleman gets two pictures a day, or ten, 

 cannot possibly make the slightest difference to the art 

 of photography, in which we are all deservedly so much 

 interested. Neither would it tend to its advancement 

 that we should all be induced to follow the same process, 

 seeing that each has advantages of its own peculiar kind, 

 the perfection of which can only be attained by each 

 individual's following one process only, thereby giving it 

 the benefit of his undivided attention. I am pleased to 

 find J. W. H. advocating collodion ; and I am sure he 



will be equally well pleased at my saying that I am a 

 wax-paper man to the back-bone. Quibbling about the 

 paramount superiority of either the one or the other, is 

 worse than lost time; the best mode being sure even- 

 tually to gain the greatest number of advocates, and to 

 gain its fairly-deserved ascendancy. 



I ought to be the last man in the world to give utter- 

 ance to one syllable uncourteous to Du. Diamond, to 

 whom I am altogether indebted for having given me the 

 first impulse in the art, leaving out of the question the 

 many unexpected favours I am proud to own to have 

 received from him in my photographic noviciate. Yet 

 his well-known liberally constituted mind will, I trust, 

 not take it amiss in my saying, that in working calotype 

 some twelve or eighteen months since, I found the Buckle's 

 brush a most economical adjunct to my stock of requisites : 

 but 3'et let each calotypist use it or not, as best may 

 please his taste. 



The perfection to "nhich your correspondent X. lias 

 brought the calotj'pe process, so .as in a pliotographic tour 

 never to experience a single failure, entirely does away 

 with one of the hitherto undisputed advantages of col- 

 lodion — that of being enabled to judge of perfection of 

 one's work before leaving the field. Prior to abandoning 

 <;alotype for wax-paper, I had certainly made a very con- 

 siderable advancement, perhni)s mainly attributable to 

 the devoting my whole time to the work ; but I must 

 confess that I fell very far short of your correspondent's 

 good luck : still,*why find fault with him for his much-to- 

 be-desired attainments, at tlie same time thanking him 

 most cordially for his liberality in publishing his im- 

 proved process, which I have no doubt will be found to 

 be a good one. 



With reference to Archer's camera, I most unhesita- 

 tingly coincide with your correspondent J. W. H., being 

 in justice bound to speak most highly in its praise. I 

 have incessantly, in the more genial months, worked it 

 for two j'cars past ; and from being located in a populous 

 town, and a member of a large photographic societj'', I 

 have had the opportunity of seeing a variety of cameras ; 

 but, to my mind, no other form has so many advantages 

 combined. So much so, that being about to work a 

 larger paper, I purpose ordering one again of the same 

 maker. ]3e it borne in mind, nevertheless, that my pre- 

 ference is that only of one individual, as there may be 

 other much better photographers who may prefer some 

 other make. I would only recommend novices who 

 may be in want of one, having the opportunity, to see 

 Archer's, amongst others, in its work, previous to his 

 making his choice. 



So much to the point is the whole of J. W. H.'s paper, 

 that I cannot do better in conclusion than by recom- 

 mending its last paragraph but one to the renewed 

 perusal of your photographic readers, being so entirely 

 convinced of the great need of unanimity of combination 

 of efforts towards the perfecting of a most useful art, as 

 yet, I have every reason to believe, entirely in its infancy. 



Henky II. Hele. 



14. Densham Terrace, Plymouth. 



Bromide of Silver. — I feel very desirous of ascertaining 

 whether any experiments have been recently made, in 

 combining the bromide with the iodide of silver in calo- 

 type paper ; and should this meet the eye of any gentle- 

 man who has made the matter a subject of investigation, 

 by giving the result in " N. & Q." he will confer a great 

 favour no doubt on many others as well as myself 



What I am most anxious to learn is, whether the bro- 

 mide of potassium could be mixed with the iodide of 

 potassium to form a bath for the paper, after the same 

 has received a wash of nitrate of silver solution ? And 

 also, whether paper so prepared would bear the usual 



