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Letter from G.F. Watts to J.M. Cameron, dated 19 October 1872, giving an assessment of her recent photographs and advice on how to improve.
 

Oct. 19. 1872
L.H.H.

My dear Mrs Cameron,

I have jotted down agreeably to your wishes some remarks agains each Photo, of course no attempt at a critical lecture, all the specimens are as a rule good, cleaner, sharper, more even in tone, & better in composition in as much as the lines are less broken, but composition requires study. There are a few


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