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  <dc:title>Letter, from Robert Wauchope to Sir John Herschel, dated at Simons Town [near Cape Town]</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Autograph letter signed by sender. J. D. Thompson plans to write John Frederick William Herschel about problem of positioning tide gage in dockyard. Admiral [Patrick Campbell] may move it to end of jetty. Robert Wauchope suggests omitting night observations in winter; jetty dangerous in bad weather. Will soon be ordered home. Amused by John Frederick William Herschel's report on Ascension [Island] sulfur. Sorry to hear Mary Herschel is ill. Robert Wauchope's son William is well again, but weak.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>4 July 1837</dc:date>
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