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  <dc:title>Letter, from Sir John Herschel to Charles Babbage, dated at Slough</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Autograph letter signed by sender. Will see him in London. Is getting on with his supplement. Has seen Charles Babbage's latest paper in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Regarding Mr. Hirsch's theories on equations.
Includes a riddle which "contains a great discovery" and doodle of Dionysius the God of Function".</dc:description>
  <dc:date>15 May 1817</dc:date>
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