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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D8760/F/FJR/1/3/2
Former ReferenceD3311/132
TitleTypescript copy of letter 25 Nov 1840 from Peter W. Dease to Dr John Richardson on the cultivation of crops in northern Canada
Date[20th cent]
DescriptionWritten from 28 Arundel Street, Strand; recipient identified from contribution by John Richardson to The New Edinburgh Philisophical Journal, Volume 30, 1841, entitled "On the Cultivation of the Cerealia in the High Latitudes of North America", pages 123-124, which contains an amended version of most of the typescript letter.
Extent1 small file of 3 pages
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
SenderPeter W Dease
RecipientJohn Richardson
Archive CreatorSir John Richardson (1787-1865)
Gell family of Hopton Hall, Wirksworth
TermCultivation
Cereals

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Dease; Peter Warren (1788-1863); Fur trader and arctic explorer
Richardson; Sir; John (1787-1865); physician, naturalist and Arctic explorer
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Canada 
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