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Add. MS a/208/49
Title
Letter from Alexander W. Lindsay, Earl of Crawford
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- 19 Jan. 1858 (Creation)
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4 pp
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Haigh, Wigan - AWC sends WW a work by James B. Lindsay [see AWC to WW, 4 February 1847]. For the last 25 years Lindsay has devoted his time to a Comparative Lexicon of fifty languages, and to the study of electricity: 'He proposed the electric telegraph long before the idea was popularly entertained, and the submarine telegraph likewise'.