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Herschel14710

From:
'Q in a Corner'
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[16 March 1842]
Source of text:
TxU:H/M-0908; Reel 1083
Summary:

Encloses newspaper clipping that reports JH is member of commission of inquiry on weights and measures. Protests that the poor are defrauded more by false scales than by nonstandard weights. Proposes remedy.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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Tyndall0130

From:
John Tyndall, Snr
To:
John Tyndall
Date:
March 16th, 1842
Source of text:
MS JT/1/10/3267, RI
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Tyndall Project
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WCP339

From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
Herbert Edward ("Edward") Wallace
Date:
[16] [March] [1842]
Source of text:
  • Natural History Museum, London: NHM WP1/3/9
  • Wallace, A. R. (1905). In: My Life: A Record of Events and Opinions. Vol. 1. London: Chapman & Hall. [p. 178]
Summary:

A long, evocative, descriptive poem about Wales, contrasting wild and beautiful countryside with the ugly hell of coal mines and Welsh miners’ brutal existence there.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
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