Item 49 - Letter from Alexander W. Lindsay, Earl of Crawford

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Add. MS a/208/49

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Letter from Alexander W. Lindsay, Earl of Crawford

Date(s)

  • 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 telegraphread more

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