Dear Doctor [Henry G. Wright],—I heard nothing of Mr. [Antoine] Claudet’s paper on the possibility of producing a series of phenakistoscopic figures by means of photography, nor yet of the probability of rendering such appearances more life-like by means of the stereoscope.[…]The phenakistoscopic effect was produced in this wise:—I prepared a kind of paddle-wheel in card-board, with half a dozen floats to it, and upon the front of each of these six floats I pasted one of the stereoscopic pictures—say that intended for the left eye.

For none of these I write, and none of these Could read the writing if they deigned to try; So may they flourish in their due degrees, On our sweet earth and in their unplaced sky.

M. Sebasky, whose machete beta brought a lot of richness to this piece; […]

By this time the Baron, with the help of Mr. Saunderson, had indued a pair of jack-boots of large dimensions, and now invited our hero to follow him as he stalked clattering down the ample staircase […]