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15 ROYAL TERRACE
EDINBURGH
9 May 1871
My dear Sir,
When I saw recently & almost simultaneously of a paper on spectrum analysis by you before the R. Soc. Edin.,1 & also a paper on an Assyrian eclipse before the Society of Biblical Archæology in London,–2 I was lost in wonder as to where you might be in bodily presence; but having had a glimpse of you yesterday at the R. Society’s rooms here, & hailing with delight your return to vivify these parts with intellectual light, I beg to send for your kind acceptance herewith two little brochures which have been published since you were last here,
& I remain
Your’s very truly
C. Piazzi Smyth
H. W. Fox Talbot Esq. FRS
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