Augustus Sauerbeck letters

This material is held atSenate House Library Archives, University of London

  • Reference
    • GB 96 AL280
  • Dates of Creation
    • 28th Aug 1893 - 5th Apr 1895
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 8" x 5" 2 items (4 leaves)

Scope and Content

Address: Moorgate Street Buildings, London EC. 2 letters to Sir Guilford Molesworth, Manor House, Bexley, [Kent]. (i) Thanks him for a letter and 2 tables of production figures; discusses his own work: 'If you examine the real reduction in cost - not by opening up new countries - but by real scientific improvement, there is probably no important article in which the reduction has been so great as in the case of gold, where it pays now if you get 1/2oz or even less out of a ton of ore' (28 August 1893). (ii) Refers to a forthcoming article on prices, to be published in the March issue of the Journal of the Statistical Society (5 April 1895).
Both letters are autograph, with signatures.

Arrangement

See hard copy catalogue.

Access Information

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These documents are inserted in A Sauerbeck 'Prices of commodities during the last seven years' (1893) - Library classmark [G.L.] 1893. To request the documents, please place an order for the volume, specifying that you wish to see the autograph letters AL280.

Other Finding Aids

Typescript catalogue available in the Library's Special Collections Reading Room.