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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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