Genre:

News-Commentary

Relevant illustrations:

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Illustrators:

[Trident], pseud.  [Henry R Howard] *

Subjects:

Light, Instruments, Amusement | Invention, Sanitation, Patronage, Government

    The initial letter of the text is formed from an illustration showing a magic lantern projecting an image—of Mr Punch pursuing a street musician—into the distance. The text concerns a spoof letter from Charles Francis Adams to Harper Twelvetrees on the subject of the United States government's patronage of Twelvetrees's washing crystals, bug-powders, and other inventions.