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Ref NoDEP/HOF/6/3
TitleLetter from an unnamed correspondent, to Francis Home
Datec1756
Description Of ItemHe gives details of the treatment of lint or flax obtained from 'a Saxon gentleman'. He also describes how madder was grown with expertise from people from the Low Countries settled near Bristol. Robert Ramsay and lobbied for the growing of madder in Scotland and the correspondent hopes Home will support it. From the same correspondent as HOF/6/1. Undated and incomplete.
Extent1 piece
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