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  <dc:title>Unpublished letter and drawings, on Henry Smeathman's designs for a flying vessel by [George] Cumberland</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Covering letter from Cumberland to Joseph Banks introduces the five accompanying pencil drawings, showing dirigible balloons based off of a design by Henry Smeathman, who had witnessed the Montgolfier balloon demonstrations in 1783.

Subject: Engineering

Written at Church Court, Clements Lane, Lombard Street [London].</dc:description>
  <dc:date>4 March 1784</dc:date>
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