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  <dc:title>Letter from Jean François Dominique Arago to Thomas Young, dated at Calais</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Addressed to Thomas Young in Paris, Hotel des Iles Britanniques.
Arago has received a letter from Young in Calais at his arrival there and regrets not being in Paris as Young is spending a fortnight there. Provides an historical summary of the publication of an article on polarisation in the Encyclopedia Britannica by Arago, and the editorial requests made by [Sir John] Leslie and [MacVey] Napier (time frame, word limit etc.).  </dc:description>
  <dc:date>28 September 1822</dc:date>
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