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Add. MS a/200/64
Title
Letter from George Airy
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- 2 Dec. 1845 (Creation)
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1 p.
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Flamsteed House, Greenwich - An American gentleman, Mr Gould, has been 'working as amateur in the Observatory' and is coming to Cambridge: 'He is a well informed and well mannered young man'. GA has given him a letter of introduction but has told him not to use it to seek WW out in private but only if they meet in public.