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Add. MS a/207/139
Title
Letter from Antoine Jobert
Date(s)
- 3 Nov. 1847 (Creation)
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2 pp
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Charlton on Medlock, Manchester - AJ has sent WW the passage in his book where he opposes him over the form of gold. WW claims that the substance of gold itself is ''collected, not from the evidence of the sense, but from the operations of our ideas' in other words the substance or the matter of gold is a necessary and universal truth an idea which cannot be acquired by experience!'