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LevelItem
Finding Number (Click this to view full catalogue structure)MS62/153
TitleNote from Bette Gilbert
Extent1 item
Date[c 1860]
DescriptionTyped note reads 'How very much warmer it is today. This writing frame was invented by a blind French man who brought it over to the great Exhibition in fifty one.' Copied out by hand beneath, with note in the same hand at the top of the fragment, written in French, giving details of the sender Bette Gilbert, daughter of the bishop of Chichester.
Access StatusOpen

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