A collection of seven letters from Henry Carr (1817-1888)

A collection of seven letters from Henry Carr (1817-1888), author of 'Our Domestic Poisons', to Alfred Swaine Taylor, about 1879.One of the letters contains a paper sample sent to Alfred Swaine Taylor to test for arsenic. Alfred Swaine Taylor (1806-1880) was an eminent British forensic medicine expert, toxicologist and early photographic pioneer.

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Archive
Object Number:
2020-412
type:
letter - correspondence

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