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- 9 Sept. 1856 (Creation)
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4 pp.
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Bequeathed by Henrietta Litchfield (née Darwin) to Margaret Keynes.
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Gift of Margaret Keynes, April 1952. The original letter of 9 Sept. 1856 is noted as part of an autograph collection in the possession of Margaret Keynes in May 1952.
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Glenlair. Has been at Aberdeen, is now on holiday with friends, invites Litchfield, mentions friends Robert Henry Pomeroy and Wilfred Lucas Heeley, discusses different ways of summing up the personalities of friends.
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Not published in The Scientific Letters and Papers of James Clerk Maxwell P. M. Harman, ed. Cambridge University Press, 1990. Extracted in Lewis Campbell and William Garnett's The Life of James Clerk Maxwell London: Macmillan and Co., 1882.
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Part of a collection of fifteen letters from Clerk Maxwell to Litchfield dating from 1853 to 1858 (Add. MS c.1/78-91).
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Typed copy letter created by Margaret Keynes.