Letter to Richard Peters, 1824.

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Letter to Richard Peters, 1824.

Letter of introduction from Cuthbert, president of the London Agricultural Society, to Richard Peters, president of the Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture. In a note written on the letter, Peters describes introducing plaster of Paris as a fertilizer.

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Peters, Richard, 1744-1828

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Richard Peters (June 22, 1744 – August 22, 1828) was a Pennsylvania lawyer, Continental Army soldier, Federalist politician, author and United States District Judge. Before his federal judicial service in the United States District Court for the District of Pennsylvania, Peters served as secretary of the Continental Board of War, delegate to the Congress of the Confederation and as member and speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives and later the Pennsylvania State Senate. Born at...

Powell, Cuthbert, 1775-1849

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