Autograph Letter Signed to an unnamed correspondent.

Wood-engraver. Two pages, 8vo, good condition. "I have just received yr last two drawings. / I will have these drawn I think, for photography gives a coat to the wood and when you think your tints are too light - you find them too dark. / With regard to the Beach cut I am persuaded that in printing it will now come very near the original, the colours of which I think you must have forgotten, and I have written to Mr Smiles (who seems to wish to get on without the subject) to try it at press - now it has been more finished - which I trust you will also approve. . . . PS. / I send a proof of the Mills, as Mr S[miles?] has written for it - for it comes early." DNB says that he was contributing to "Picturesque Europe" (Cassell, 1876-9) at this time but I have found no further information.