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Cote
Add. MS a/200/212
Titre
Letter from George Bancroft
Date(s)
- 3 June 1859 (Production)
Niveau de description
Pièce
Étendue matérielle et support
4 pp.
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Nom du producteur
Histoire archivistique
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Portée et contenu
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].