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  <dc:title>Letter from Jean François Dominique Arago to Thomas Young</dc:title>
  <dc:description>No origin listed, addressed to Young at the Board of Longitudes.
Relates to Arago's contribution on polarisation for the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Arago is still awaiting to receive [David] Brewster's treatise to finish the entry, when completed it will be sent via Sir Charles Stuart.
As a post-scriptum, mentions that he has just learnt that [Jean-Francois] Champollion with shortly publish a great treatise on hieroglyphs.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>17 January 1824</dc:date>
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