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  <dc:title>Letter, from John Daniel Runkle to Sir John Herschel, dated at Cambridge, Mass.</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Autograph letter signed by sender. Sends Mathematical Monthly with John Frederick William Herschel's portrait and catalog of his writings. Smithsonian will send rain data John Frederick William Herschel wants. Discusses politics and hopes England will help break the cotton monopoly and thereby end slavery.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>8 April 1861</dc:date>
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