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  <dc:title>Letter from Purnell B [Bransby] Purnell, County Chairman of Gloucestershire, Stancombe Park, Dursley, to the Council of the Royal Society, Burlington House</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Requesting permission to have a copy taken from one of the Society's portraits of Sir Isaac Newton. Purnell claims a relation to Newton and suggests Lowes Dickinson make the copy. 

[Affirmative response from William Sharpey, secretary, on 29 October 1859.]</dc:description>
  <dc:date>26 October 1859</dc:date>
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