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Mrs. H. Baden Pritchard—Impressions from pewter plates of heliographic drawing, by Nic�phore Ni�pce, 1827.

Joseph Nic�phore de Ni�pce commenced experiments with the hope of securing the pictures as seen in the camera-obscura.

As Daguerre was the first of the successful discoverers of photography to be summoned by death, I will here give a brief sketch of his life and pursuits prior to his association with Nic�phore Ni�pce and photography.

After the death of M. Nic�phore Ni�pce, a new agreement was entered into by his son, M. Isidore Ni�pce, and M. Daguerre, and we must leave those two experimentalists pursuing their discoveries in France while we return to England to pick up the chronological links that unite the history of this wonderful discovery with the time that it was abandoned by Wedgwood and Davy, and the period of its startling and brilliant realization.

Original letter, by Nic�phore Ni�pce, sent to the Royal Society, 1827.