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Reference code
Adams/Box 5-15/Box 7/7/1
Unique identifier
GB 275 Adams/Box 5-15/Box 7/7/1
Title
Autograph letter signed to J.C. Adams
Date(s)
- 23 Apr. 1849 (Creation)
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Item
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3p, envelope paper
Context area
Name of creator
(1783-1866)
Biographical history
Traveller, astronomer, antiquary; son of John Fiott; educated at St John's College; made a tour through Europe and the East collecting objects of antiquity, 1807-10; MA 1809; assumed name of Lee by royal license, 1815; FSA, 1828; built observatory on his estate, 1830; FRS, 1831; practising member of the ecclesiastical courts till 1858; QC, 1864; published scientific and antiquarian works.
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J. Jerwood and the R.A.S
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- Adams, John Couch (1819-1892) astronomer (Subject)