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  <dc:title>Letter: William Thomson, St. Peter’s College, Cambridge to David Thomson</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Letter from William Thomson (Lord Kelvin, 1824-1907) at St. Peter’s College, Cambridge, to David Thomson. He is comfortably settled in attic rooms in College; describes arrival and reception by tutor Cookson who guided him around the College; gives his impression of Hopkins and Challis, with some details of the observatory; describes evening with Gregory, who expounded on the weakness of the 'Johnsian notation'; relays other College news; asks advice about life in Cambridge.</dc:description>
  <dc:date>22 October 1841</dc:date>
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