On this day (July 18) in the year 1846, the following text appeared in the "Daily Republican" (Springfield, Mass. Vol. 3, No. 95; Whole No. 709) page 2: - - - - - - - - DAGUERREOTYPES BY MAIL.--It may be well to remind young gentlemen who send their daguerreotype likenesses by mail to their sweethearts and friends, not to omit paying the postage. There is quite a gallery of these upaid resemblances at the dead letter office at Washington, each charged about two dollars, unreclaimed. A young lady who will not pay two dollars for the likeness of her sweetheart, and a young gentleman who would send a daguerreotype to her unpaid, were never destined for each other. -------------------------------------------------------------- 07-18-97