I may possibly recover this skill, and if anything will tend to this end, if anything can tune again an instrument so long unstrung, it is the kindness and liberality of my Cousin Edward.

I would wish, therefore, the matter put on this ground that my mind may be at ease.

I am at present engaged in taking portraits by the Daguerreotype.

I have been at considerable expense in perfecting apparatus and the necessary fixtures, and am just reaping a little profit from it.

My ultimate aim is the application of the Daguerreotype to accumulate for my studio models for my canvas.