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Add. MS a/213/63
Titre
Letter from Richard Sheepshanks
Date(s)
- [25 Sept. 1821?] (Production)
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Étendue matérielle et support
2 pp.
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Histoire archivistique
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RS hopes to be with WW on Thursday: 'I will bring what I can with me of our efforts and will take especial care of your unfortunate barometer with its invisible lower surface'. He has just come from Greenwich Observatory: 'Their quicksilver is placed upon a board which goes from the mural to the wall and they say it is steady enough'. He met an architect who wishes to try for the Cambridge Observatory contract.