Letters : to Charles Wheatstone, 1835, n.d.

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Letters : to Charles Wheatstone, 1835, n.d.

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Letters concern his experiments with optical instruments, and give the location of a demonstration of his experiments which he and his mother will attend accompanied by the Marquis of Lansdowne.

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