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Pleased to hear his health is improving, but he should rest in the morning. Thinks it will be a long time before the decimal coinage can be introduced. Comments on cooking in the next century. Has been looking at a 10" bar of aluminum, which [Thomas?] Graham has sent him.
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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