Contents : Images from Melbourne's Past A selection of daguerreotypes from The Pencil of Nature The Eye Perfected: the Daguerreotypes of T.P. and D. C. Collins A Daguerreotype, a Braided Lovelock, and a Billet-Doux "Ultimate Success is Certain": The Life and Art of Samuel A. Bemis Library of Congress Feature, "L.J. Phillips Daguerreian Rooms" The Emergence of Commercial Photography in Boston: 1840-1841 "It seems an Age Since I Left Home": The Letters of N. D. Stanwood Light Through the Smoke: A Short Discussion of Pittsburgh Daguerreotypists A Special Portfolio of Members' Favorite Daguerreotypes