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  <dc:title>Copy letter, from Sir John Herschel to William Whewell, dated at Collingwood</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Copy of letter, copied as part of the correspondence project led by Colonel John Herschel FRS following the death of his father. Asks William Whewell's opinion of John Frederick William Herschel's hexameter translation of the opening section of Homer's Iliad. Comments on the value of hexameter verse.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>12 December 1861</dc:date>
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