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Autograph letter signed by sender. Is Miss Macqueen expected with him tomorrow and would she give the enclosed memo to John Frederick William Herschel [query as to whether the Duke of Gloucester was in Metz in 1776].

Reference number
HS/6/488
Earliest possible date
August 1833
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

Creator name

C. De La Vane

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C. De La Vane, Letter, from C. De La Vane to Margaret Brodie Herschel, dated at Datchet, August 1833, HS/6/488, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/hs_6_488/letter-from-c-de-la-vane-to-margaret-brodie-herschel-dated-at-datchet, accessed on 11 December 2024

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