The transcript of this letter is not available online on Ɛpsilon.
Please cite as “Herschel13457,” in Ɛpsilon: The Sir John Herschel Collection accessed on 7 May 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/herschel/letters/Herschel13457
Explains to Treasury why copper needed for coinage is supplied by private contract, rather than by public competition, following 1849 transfer of copper manufacturing from Boulton & Watt in Soho to Ralph Heaton & Sons in Birmingham.
Record created for the Calendar of the Correspondence of Sir John Herschel (CUP: Cambridge), 1998 by Michael J. Crowe ed., David R. Dyck and James J. Kevin assoc. eds
Digital record created by Dr Marvin Bolt and Steven Lucy at the Webster Institute of the Adler Planetarium
Converted to TEI by Michael Hawkins, Epsilon Project, Cambridge University Library
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