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Document number: 5625
Date: Sep 1857
Recipient: MITCHELL John
Author: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Last updated: 1st September 2003

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Sent to Mitchell

Sept /57

No 1. Compact & dark grey is Welsh mine 37.6 pr Ct

M. says 39½

No 2. Earthy and pulverulent

Westbury 40 NB. had bn calcined

No 3. Clay ironstone with ochre. 53. Nrmore

No 4. hard sort. fracture black & sparkling 27½ Nethermore

No 5. Compact from Nethermore. 52½ NB Same as No 3, but a little harder

No 6. a kind already found (Seend) 36.

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Sent to Mitchell <1>

September 1857

No 1. Compact and dark grey is Welsh mine 37.6 percent
Mitchell says 39½

No 2. Earthy and pulverulent Westbury 40
NB. had been calcined

No 3. Clay ironstone with ochre.
53. Nethermore

No 4. hard sort. fracture black & sparkling
27½ Nethermore

No 5. Compact from Nethermore.
52½ NB Same as No 3, but a little harder

No 6. a kind already found (Seend)

36.


Notes:

1. Mitchell replied on 22 September 1857, See Doc. No: 07456.

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