| Description | 'November 4th 1786 - 1787.' (This item is a small hardback notebook with a green cover. On the cover is written the preceding inscription. The notebook contains observations, calculations, diagrams and accounts relating to different subjects, but mostly to business in France. There are dated entries of experiments as well as personal entries. Pages of notes have headings such as; 'Learnt in France' and 'Public meetings and schools for the promotion of human knowledge and arts.' Within the notebook there is also a page headed 'France.' On that page is a list divided into columns with the headings; 'Worse than England' and 'Better than England.' Enclosed in the notebook are four items. The first is a slip with an address of someone in France. The second item is a memorandum entitled 'Sugar Mill.' The third item is a note docketed; 'Notes from Monsieur Dangavilliers. Letter a Monsieur de Varly.' The final item is a slip that seems to be an admittance ticket, it reads; 'Please to admit Baron Stein to see the Steam Engine. J.Field 24 Jan. 1787.')
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