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Add. MS c/52/146
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Richard Jones to William Whewell
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- 21 Nov. 1850 (Creation)
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4 pp.
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John Herschel is to be Master of the Mint from the 1st of December with a salary of 1500 pounds a year: 'It is really a glorious thing for many good reasons'. RJ is ill. He will write to WW 'a word or two about your bullion question shortly and however I am sure if you can you had better make x's and y's do the work of sums inasmuch as for reasons I will send you I feel confident no calculations worth a farthing exist as to the sums which poor Jacob assumes' [William Jacob, 'An Inquiry into the Production and Consumption of the Precious Metals', 2 vols., 1831]. RJ and Charlotte Jones are to spend a week at the Victoria Hotel [see RJ to WW, 20 October 1850].