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  <dc:title>Letter, from Richard Sheepshanks to Sir John Herschel, dated at Reading</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Autograph letter signed by sender. Urges John Frederick William Herschel to plead to Lord Palmerston on behalf of [H. C.] Schumacher. Suggests arguments John Frederick William Herschel might use. States that John Frederick William Herschel as 'chief of British astronomy by inheritance, by age and by service' is the ideal person to make this plea.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>13 October 1842</dc:date>
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