London Athenaeum: The largest public library : Providence Public Library, which contain Fiske Harris Collection on Civil War and ery, the Updike Printing Collection, anc Williams Collection on Irish Culture. A others are the Providence Athenaeum, Rhod land State Library, and Rhode Island State Library, in Providence; and the Redwood Lil and Athenaeum, in Newport.
His fame as a conversationalist approached mat of Samuel Rogers, but he never made any serious attempt to gain distinction as a writer. :':; intimate acquaintance with many of the great-men and women of his time, such as William .lurdsworth, Charles Lamb, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Robert Southey, John Flaxman, and Thomas Clarkson, gives interest and value to his writings appearing in The Diary, Reminiscences, and Correspondence of Henry Crabb Robinson, ed. by Thomas Sadler (1869). Robinson was one of the founders of the Athenaeum Club and of University College, London.
Although daguerreotypes of architecture and faraway landmarks were popular, the public was disappointed that the invention did not fulfill the promises implied in the first announcement. "It has excited some surprise," we read in the London Athenaeum of October 26, 1839, "that, after the eager and natural curiosity of the public concerning the discovery of M. Daguerre while it yet remained a secret, so little interest should now be taken in the subject." One reason was that, in spite of the apparently generous action of the French government in offering the daguerreotype process "free to everybody (a tout le monde)," the inventor applied for and received a patent in England. Another, more important reason, was that the process did not at first satisfy the public's demand for portraits.
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