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RefNoMS/257/4/169
AltRefNoSa.1298
Previous numbersES4/4/1298
LevelItem
TitleLetter from Robert Hermann Schomburgk, New Kingston, Surrey to Edward Sabine
Date25 September 1848
DescriptionSchomburgk intends to travel to Barbados and Demerara [former colony, now part of Guyana] ‘partly in order to escape the winter, partly on private business’, and requests Sabine to lend him Hansteen’s apparatus. Schomburgk intends to return to England in May.
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionInk on paper
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA2441Schomburgk; Sir; Robert Hermann (1804 - 1865)1804 - 1865
NA8279Sabine; Sir; Edward (1788 - 1883)1788 - 1883
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