Foxwold

Southborne-on-sea

W. Christchurch

21/1 (?)/04

Dear Mr. Stieglitz

I trust you are OK [as] of this.

I write to tell you that I replied to Mr. Cockburn's card at the Carlton
very much in haste. I misread his name for Cohen and so addressed it to
Mr Cohen with his initial - but will find it in the letter office. I just
want to man the rifles (?) to show him I was not impolite enough to take no
notice of his card.

I also note in his letter AL (?) Cockburn brought to the new gallery you
ask if I can put you in the way of getting one of my portfolios. I regret
I cannot. I have only one and have no idea where one could be bought, for
they cost money. The only illustrated books of mine which are not quite
sold out are: Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads S. Low & Co
publisher ₤6.6.0. A few left. Wild Life on a Tidal Water. Edition
de luxe. D. Nutt - publisher. ₤3.3.0. A few left.

On English Lagoons Edition de luxe. D. Nutt - publisher - ₤1.1.0 - and
the rest are pictures (?) etc.

Excuse this hurried note - but I have a pile of correspondence on my
schedule (?).

Foxwold (?)

Southbourne

Bournemouth

31/ v/14

Dear Mr Steiglitz

Bedding gave me your address and I wonder if you can tell me anything about the *Verito* lens of the Wollensaken Optical Co. Is it a semi-achromatic of the *Smith* type or one with primitive spherical aberration or what. The Smith lens I do not regard with favor - Dallmeyer made me a lens like that 20 years ago and I rejected it - it gives a pin-holy effect and pin-hole effect is not the texture one requires at all.

How is Pictorial Photography in the States - it is practically dead over here except for some misguided and superficial people like Demachy and Co - they are doing bungling *Photo-oleographs* that are false in tonality and crude enough to delight a child.

I saw Coburn some time back - he is a sort of photo-journalist and is issuing topographic books on New York etc. - he seems very enthusiastic.

I hear you do no more photography.

With kind regards

Faithfully yrs

P. H. Emerson