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Ref NoMS 3219/4/3/1/34
Finding NumberMS 3219/4/127/34
TitleLetter. James Watt (Birmingham) to Joseph Black (Edinburgh).
LevelItem
Date5 May1789
Description[He has been to London. The stones should have arrived. Dr. Withering is ill. Watt is still affected by asthma. Dr. Priestley has successfully tried to produce pure dephlogisticated air cheap. First number of the Annales de Chymie by Lavoisier, Berthollet, Monge and Fourcroy is published. Dr. Crawford has found a remedy for cancerous or scrofulous diseases from terra ponderosa. Mr Boulton keeps pretty well by drinking the aerated alkali mixed with warm milk].(Partners no. 126)
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