"Holograph, signed. Isidore Geoffroy St. Hilaire is sending the first specimens of new art by Alexandre Rousseau, one of the inventors of photography, and is intended to show an improvement in photography."
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"Letter from Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Museum of Natural History, Paris, [France], to Maria Weston Chapman, November 18th, 1853"
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creators
"Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, Isidore, 1805-1861 (Author); Chapman, Maria Weston, 1806-1885 (Addressee)"