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  <dc:title>Letter from [Jean Baptiste, Baron] Secondat de Montesquieu, Bordeaux, France, to [Martin Folkes]</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Asks Folkes to help him procure: a Newton telescope, 'The Elelments of Algebra' by Sanderson  [Nicholas Saunderson], "Evelin sur la culture des arbes" ['Sylva' by John Evelyn], the best works on agriculture in English, 'A Compleat System of Opticks' by [Robert] Smith. They can be delivered to Montesquieu via a Bordeaux merchant named Awkins</dc:description>
  <dc:date>c.1740</dc:date>
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