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  <dc:title>Incomplete letter, from Sir John Herschel to Charles Babbage, dated at [Slough]</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Autographed letter, incomplete. Welcome back to London. Explain Charles Babbage's demonstration of 'theorem in transcendental arithmetic.' John Frederick William Herschel's observations of 'new acid' [hyposulfurous] and optical phenomena in 'chrystals of nitre.'</dc:description>
  <dc:date>9 November 1818</dc:date>
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