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The Royal Society: Science in the Making

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Jules Verne serializes Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

1869: (Vingt Mille Lieues sous les Mers)

Autograph letter signed by sender. Asks John Frederick William Herschel to sign a certificate for Fellowship of the Royal Society [of London] of [William Stanley] Jevons.

Reference number: HS/10/196