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Autograph letter signed by sender. Asks John Frederick William Herschel to write to Earl de Grey [G. F. S. Robinson] stating James Samuelson's qualifications for position on Royal Commission 'for inquiring into the question of the Extension of State Aid t

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HS/15/340a
Earliest possible date
8 March 1870
Page extent
1 page
Format
Manuscript

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James Samuelson

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James Samuelson, Letter, from James Samuelson to Sir John Herschel, dated at Liverpool, 8 March 1870, HS/15/340a, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_15_340a/letter-from-james-samuelson-to-sir-john-herschel-dated-at-liverpool, accessed on 05 December 2024

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