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Document number: 144
Date: 10 Feb 1852
Dating: just after dDoc no 145 and in response to Doc no 05669 - 28 Jan 1852
Recipient: TALBOT William Henry Fox
Author: SHEEPSHANKS Richard
Collection: British Library, London, Manuscripts - Fox Talbot Collection
Collection number historic: Acc no 21032 (envelope only)
Last updated: 24th June 2015

Dear Talbot,

I am going abroad & am leaving directions to an assistant secretary to get the Solar Eclipse <1> through the press without delay. So please to send to him as early as you can, your account which is I believe the only English South-Baltic account,

Yours very truly
R Sheepshanks.

[envelope: flap blindstamped The Athenӕum]
H. F. Talbot Esqe
Lacock Abbey
Chippenham

Notes:

1. WHFT’s ‘Observations on the Total Eclipse of the Sun on July 28, 1851, Prussia’ was published in the Royal Astronomical Society Memoirs, v. 21, part 1, 1851–1852, pp. 107–113.

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