Identificatie
referentie code
Add. MS a/208/49
Titel
Letter from Alexander W. Lindsay, Earl of Crawford
Datum(s)
- 19 Jan. 1858 (Vervaardig)
Beschrijvingsniveau
Stuk
Omvang en medium
4 pp
Context
Naam van de archiefvormer
archiefbewaarplaats
Geschiedenis van het archief
Directe bron van verwerving of overbrenging
Inhoud en structuur
Bereik en inhoud
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'.