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  <dc:title>Letter, from David Brewster to Sir John Herschel, dated at 10 Coates Crescent, Edinburgh</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Autograph letter signed by sender. Has been unable to answer his letters due to the King's visit. Refrained from writing on hearing of the death of W. Herschel. His paper on the absorption of light will appear in the next number of the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Comments on this. Grateful for any astronomical news. Advice welcomed on memoir of W. Herschel.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>12 October 1822</dc:date>
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