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Sender: Lewes, Vivian Byam
Recipient: Smithells, Arthur
Letters: 7
Date(s): 19 Jan 1895 - 20 Jan 1896; 1 n.d.
Location: SC MS 416/92, 93, 96, 102, 108, 112, 408
Note: 1) Price of carbide; his evaluation of its illumination value;
enrichment of acetylene. TS. 2 ff. 2) More about his evaluation of calcium carbide; commercial considerations. MS. 3) Proposed lecture in Leeds; an "old marine" his laboratory assistant. TS. 4) Offers AS some calcium carbide; smell of acetylene made from carbide. TS. 5) Returns draft paper to AS; disagreement over acetylene theory; attendance at Chemistry Society lecture and invites AS to stay with him. MS. 2 ff. 6) His controversy with AS. MS. 2 ff. 7) Last three lines of a letter, and signature. MS. Verso blank.