- unitid
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{"value"=>"276298", "type"=>"local_mss"}
{"value"=>"EM. 3740", "type"=>"local_emmet"}
- unitdate
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{"value"=>"Feb. 24, 1871", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1871-02-24"}
- unittitle
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{"value"=>"Letter to George [Long, jr.]"}
- physdesc
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{"value"=>"A. L. S. 4 pp. 12mo", "format"=>"simple"}
- abstract
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{"value"=>"He favors the University of Virginia rather than the College at Lexington as a site for the proposed observatory; the College was a miserable establishment in his time, and its temporary success under Gen. Lee seems no reason for fixing an observatory there; the donor should aim to make his gift as useful as possible without regard to prepossessions; recommends that some young Cambridge mathematician be secured as observer."}
- origination
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{"value"=>"Long, George (Brighton, England)", "type"=>"persname", "role"=>"Author"}
- date_inclusive_start
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1871
- date_inclusive_end
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1871
- keydate
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1871-02-24
- date_start
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1871-02-24
- date_end
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1871-02-24