Item 88 - Letter from Richard Sheepshanks

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Add. MS a/213/88

Title

Letter from Richard Sheepshanks

Date(s)

  • 8 Apr. 1831 (Creation)

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3 pp.

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RS wrote to George Airy yesterday concerning an application from Francis Beaufort: 'The Admiralty have commissioned him to look out for an assistant for Fallows' [Fearon Fallows - astronomer at the Cape of Good Hope]. 'Judging from myself I should preferread more

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