Item 16/fol.36-37 - Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

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Adams/Box 33/16/fol.36-37

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GB 275 Adams/Box 33/16/fol.36-37

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Copy of letter to G.B. Airy

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  • 21 Jan. 1847 (Creation)

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2p, foolscap paper

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Lee, John (1783-1866) antiquary and astronomer
(1783-1866)

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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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Neptune. Transcript from Airy's correspondence files in RGO Archives, copied for D.MacAlister 1893-1894.

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