COLUMBUS, OHIO, November 6, 1869.
DEAR GENERAL: My
wife and I both wish to say thank you for the beautiful pictures [reproductions
of paintings in European galleries]. They are so fine that I want to be able to
talk about them—how they are done; where are the originals; whose? etc., etc. I
am told that a negative is obtained from the painting by the ordinary process,
that the negative is retouched, and these pictures printed from the improved
negative.
The next time I meet
you I propose to hear you on your trip. So try not [to] forget it altogether.
Sincerely,
R. B. HAYES.
M. F. FORCE.
SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 68
No comments:
Post a Comment