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  <dc:title>Note describing a telescope, by William James Herschel</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Supplementary note to a  letter to his father, requesting that a telescope is procured as a gift for Nicholas Stewart. The description was intended to be sent on to possible instrument-makers. Commencing: 'A telescope in a leather sling case of the smallest size now made which answers to the following conditions...'</dc:description>
  <dc:date>3 July 1857</dc:date>
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