Josiah Latimer Clark letter

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

  • Reference
    • GB 96 AL425
  • Dates of Creation
    • 2nd Dec 1891
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 8" x 5" 2 leaves

Scope and Content

Address: Westminster Chambers, 11 Victoria Street, London SW. To Sydney Lupton. 'Your most delightful book of tables & constants is I presume on every table ...'. Writing in reply to a letter from Lupton, saying that he hopes to correct his own figures before long, since Lupton had referred him to an article by Professor [George Carey] Foster in Watts' Dictionary [of Chemistry].
Autograph, with signature.

Arrangement

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Access Information

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The books referred to in this letter are probably the following: S Lupton, 'Numerical tables and constants in elementary science' (1884); J L Clark 'A dictionary of metric and other useful measures' (1891); H Watts 'A dictionary of chemistry and the allied branches of science' (1863-1875). Copies of all of these volumes are available in the British Library.

Other Finding Aids

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

Related Material

This letter was among the material originally acquired with MS699