Ladbroke Square | 30th Oct / 55
My dear Professor
The Abbé Moigno1 requested me to bring over for you the accompanying box of Lucifers. Their peculiarity consists in the red Phosphorous being mixed with the Emery on the Sand paper, thus rendering two conditions necessary for their ignition & thus diminishing the danger ordinarily attendant on them[.]
Sincerely Yours | Lyon Playfair
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