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GENUINE AND IMPARTIAL MEMOIRS OF THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF CHARLES
RATCLIFFE, wrote by a gentleman of the family, Mr. Eyre, to prevent the
Public being imposed on by any erroneous or partial accounts to the
prejudice of this unfortunate gentleman. London: printed for the
Proprietor, and sold by E. Cole. 1746.
Wanted by _Mr. Douglas_, 16. Russell Square, London.
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Notices to Correspondents.
COL. CHARTERIS _or_ CHARTRES.--_Our Correspondent who inquires for
particulars respecting this monster of depravity is referred to Pope's
+Works+, edit. 1736, vol. ii. p. 24. of the Ethic Epistles. Also to the
following works: +The History of Col. Francis Charteris from his birth
to his present Catastrophe in Newgate+, 4to. 1730; +Memoirs of the Life
and Actions of Col. Ch----s+, 8vo. 1730; +Life of Col. Don Francisco+,
with a wood-cut portrait of Col. Charteris or Chartres, 8vo._
N. _On the "Sun's rays putting out the fire," see_ Vol. vii., pp. 285.
345. 439.
R. V. T. _An excellent tract may be had for a few pence on +The History
of Pews+, a paper read before the Cambridge Camden Society, 1841: see
also +"N. & Q.," Vol. iii., p. 56., and Vol. viii., p. 127+._
C. K. P. (Bishop's Stortford). _We candidly admit that your results upon
waxed paper are much like our own, for no +certainty+ has at present
attended our endeavours. If the paper is made sensitive, then it behaves
exactly as yours has done; and if, following other formulæ, we use a
less sensitive paper, then the exposure is so long and tedious that we
are not anxious to pursue Photography in so "slow a phase". Why not
adopt and abide by the simplicity of the calotype process as given in a
late Number? In the writer's possession we have seen nearly a hundred
consecutive negatives without a failure._
W. S. P. (Newcastle-upon-Tyne). _Filtered rain-water is far the best to
use in making your iodized paper. The appearances which you describe in
all probability depend upon the different sheets resting too firmly upon
one another, so that the water has not +free+ and +even+ access to the
whole sheet._
H. J. (Norwich). _Turner's paper is now quite a precarious article; a
specimen which has come to us of his recent make is full of spots, and
the negative useless. Towgood's is admirable for positives, but it does
not appear to do well for iodizing. We hope to be soon able to say
something cheering to Photographers upon a good paper!_
_Errata._--MR. P. H. FISHER wishes to correct an error in his article on
"The Court-house of Painswick." Vol. viii., p. 596., col. 2., for "The
lodge, an old wooden house," read "stone house." Also in his article in
Vol. ix., p. 8., col. 2., for "Rev. ---- Hook," read "Rev. ---- Stock."
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