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  <dc:title>Copy of incomplete letter, from Sir John Herschel to Charles Babbage, dated at [Slough]</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Copy of incomplete letter, copied as part of the correspondence project led by Colonel John Herschel FRS following the death of his father. 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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