The French Photographer Duboscq Writes To The American Electrical Engineer Edwin Houston

JULES DUBOSCQ (1817-1886). Duboscq was a French photographer and engineer; he created many special effects in the mid-Nineteenth Century.LS. 1pg. 8 x 9. December 9, 1874. Paris. A letter signed J Duboscq on his printed stationery. He wrote to Edwin Houston of Philadelphia: I am pleased to acknowledge receipt of your favor of the preceding 12 November, enclosing a letter of credit drawn on our city bank for the sum of six hundred twenty-six francs, the balance of my invoice of 27 October last. In anticipation of your forthcoming orders, please be assured of my sincere best wishes. J. Duboscq. Edwin Houston was an American inventor and electrical engineer; he designed an early arc lamp. The letter has a French revenue stamp in the lower left corner and a couple small holes that affect nothing. It is written on graph paper and the ink is dark.