My dear Sir

It is very difficult to get, at will—those expressions you wish— Few have the command or imagination to appear real— — In time—I might catch some—¹ —So I have tried in propria persona— —even cut my moustache shorter to try to please you in the last batch—. The crying baby in the arms of the Boy you see I have had enlarged for you—and so can any other be treated.—²

You ask for a Bill— — You cannot pay for good will

For all the photogr^s. you have had I will lump it at £3.3.— And—for each plate that you may want to make use of I will charge only 10/.³

I have worked thro’ the two Vol^s you pleased to present me with— —⁴ Whether I agree or not it has helped to enlarge my mind—and certainly my reason cannot believe in the creation of an Adult+ at any one time any more than of a plant jumping full grown into existence.

Yours very truly | O. G. Rejlander

+“And the eyes were opened and the light did not effect them—and could at once discern all the dif. distances— And gastric juice was in the stomack but did not corrode the lining—and the liver & kidneys were active—on nothing— And the blood was there—injected?”— — — — It’s getting absurd—⁵