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  <dc:title>Letter from Emily Beke, 1 Ferndale View, Woodbury Park, Tunbridge Wells, to [Joseph Dalton Hooker], President of the Royal Society and to the Council</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Requesting monetary aid to support her as the widow of geographer Dr Charles Beke. She reports of her own weak state of health and poverty, as well as her wish to be assisted in the posthumous publication of her late husband's works on Africa. 

[The letter covers two papers, the second of which is labelled MC/10/464a within the volume.]</dc:description>
  <dc:date>27 November 1876</dc:date>
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