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Ref NoMS 3219/4/1/5/9/54
Finding NumberMS 3219/4/46/54
TitleDocket, in James Watt jr.'s hand, reads : ‘Notices respecting a box sent to Exeter. Nov. 1804’.
LevelItem
DateNovember 1804
Description[Includes a description taken from R. Hamilton’s letter of 14 Nov. 1804: ‘ The Box was about 8 inches long and 4 Square. It contained W. Creighton’s letters to June 1801, which were enclosed in a sheet of light coloured coarse paper, sealed at each end and superscribed with his name. The other contents were a Portrait of your father in Jasper, a coffee cup covered with a Metallic ground and some very diminutive specimens of some Experiments of the conversion of Glass into Porcellain [sic].’]
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