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BOWRING
(Sir John, 1792-1872, M.P., F.R.S., Linguist, Governor and Ambassador, opened up trade with King Mongkut of Siam, favourite pupil of Jeremy Bentham)
Autograph letter signed to William Pengelley, F.R.S.,
(1812-1894, the geologist of Devonshire), in Torquay, asking him to dine on Tuesday to meet Mr Symonds and a few friends, and to kindly bring up an Umbrella which we left at No. 1 Abbey Crescent & which will be sent to you by Mrs Harwood (Lady B's sister)... We spent yesterday at Torquay but there was no time to call on you, adding The B[ritish] A[ssociation] come to Exeter - I wrote Plym[ou]t[h] to co-operate - I have heard from Grove. He and Phillips came to the same conclusion independently, 2 sides 7 x 4½, blind embossed crest and 'B', Claremont, Exeter, 2nd March
Item Date: 1868
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Background
Symonds and Grove are probably William Samuel Symonds, (1818-1887, the geologist), and Sir William Robert Grove, (1811-1896, the physicist and judge). Dr George Phillips, (1804-1892, President of Queens' College) was an Assistant Secretary of the British Association and hosted the meeting in Cambridge in 1862.
some light traces of laying down by verso, affecting one word (easily supplied), offset at blank foot of verso from a bookseller's catalogue, a little light crumpling on left side, reading unaffected
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