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Rasp: 234.

Raspe is come back from Cambridge. He has
brought his lecturing scheme to bear: but he is
notwithstanding vastly happy, having met with his
old manuscripts relative to the arts. He has transcribed
them both. One is a Monkish author of
the 7th Century, by whose work it appears amongst
other things not only that the art of making glass was
known to the people of those days, but that they
were even acquainted with the composition of
the particular species which we call crown
glass and float glass. So says R. for I have
not seen th his copy, though I am to see it.
What the other MS is he has not told me. It
was yesterday only that I met him in the house we both

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both frequent. The Cambridge people he says were
very mad that a stranger and a foreigner should
have found such a treasure in their possession
without their knowing it. He appears to have
been mighty well received there by the Bishop of
Peterborough (Master of Trinity College) & a number
of the other Dii majorum gentium.

245. Keir's Metal. v. 23

He had wialso with him a piece of Keir's metal
which he shew'd me: it was in a very
thin plate. There was no judging very well of
the colour; it being dirty and perhaps tarnished. It is
from its other properties chiefly that it derives its value
It seems to have more of the Pinchbeck in it than of
the common brass. I don't know very well whether I See the other letter
shall not in letter to send you
small piece the by name I did

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A Mons:r
Mons:r Bentham
a P.Pd 1
Mittau
en
Courlande
Open this first
Aux soins de M.
le Baron Klopman
Chambellan de
S. A. Ser:<hi rend="superscript">me

53½
13½
67

1779
I.B. to S.B. Mittau
Decr 28th.

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Identifier: | JB/538/424/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 538.
Date_1	1779-12-18	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	538	Main Headings
Folio number	424	Info in main headings field
Image	002	Titles
Category	Correspondence	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks
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