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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
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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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.
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