_Photographic Copies of MSS._--I am glad to find from your Notices to
Correspondents in Vol. viii., p. 456., that the applicability of
photography to the copying of MSS., or printed leaves, is beginning to
excite attention. The facility and cheapness of thus applying it (as I have
been informed by a professional photographer) is so great, that I have no
doubt but that we shall shortly have it used in our great public libraries;
so as to supersede the present slow, expensive, and uncertain process of
copying by hand. And it is in order to help to bring about so desirable a
state of things, that I send these few lines to your widely-circulated
journal.