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Add. MS a/201/111
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Letter from Charles Brooke
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- 14 Sept. 1847 (Creation)
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4 pp
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Keppel Street - The instruments [for the Magnetic Observatory] are likely to be ready by the end of October. CB has made some enquiries for an assistant to Mr. Glaisher, the superintendent of the Magnetic department at Greenwich Observatory. A respectable assistant will not be got for much less than £120 per year. Glaisher 'observed that at that salary, they seldom kept long those who were worth keeping; and if they did remain there, it was only for the sake of retaining the name of 'Assistant at the Royal Observatory' as a stepping stone to something better'. Some final details to consider before the plan of the building is finally settled.