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Add. MS a/200/212
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Letter from George Bancroft
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- 3 June 1859 (Creation)
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4 pp.
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New York - A letter of introduction for Dr Henry Smith - 'my countryman, who has very much distinguished himself by his intimate acquaintance with moral and metaphysical philosophy & its history'. GB wants to know if Franklin's explanation of 'the phenomena of light by a theory of vibrations had come under your eye?' - since WW does not name him in the prelude to Thomas Young and Augustin Fresnel. He encloses a few sentences from a letter by Franklin [no longer attached].
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- Bancroft, George (1800-1891) historian (Subject)