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RefNoNLB/35/766
AltRefNoNLB/35 p477
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Rabbi Henry Cohen, Congregation B'nai Israel, Galveston, Texas
Date15 July 1907
DescriptionHarrison states that a comprehensive obituary notice of Professor J J [James Joseph] Sylvester, including portrait, was published in Proceedings of the Royal Society in 1898, published by Messrs Harrison & Sons for one shilling and six pence. The new Jewish Encyclopaedia, published by Funk and Wagnell, contains a notice of Sylvester and a reproduction of the Sylvester medal.
Extent1p
FormatCarbon
PhysicalDescriptionTypescript
AccessStatusOpen
Fellows associated with this archive
CodePersonNameDates
NA2893Sylvester; James Joseph (1814 - 1897)1814 - 1897
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