London Marathon this Sunday

Cutty Sark will be closed on Sunday 27 April until 2pm due to the London Marathon. All other sites are open to visitors and spectators as normal, but please check road closures before you travel and allow extra time as the area will be busy. Parking at the National Maritime Museum is unavailable all day.

Letter to Nevil Maskelyne from Mungo Park.

A letter to Nevil Maskelyne dated 27 August 1788, from Lalande, in French, Thanks for the welcome Nevil Maskelyne gave him in London; he has returned satisfied and full of admiration for English astronomy. Request to check an observations of a star from 1690. Greetings to ‘la belle madame Maskelyne’.

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Item reference:	MSK/3/3/16
Catalogue Section:	Personal collections
Level:	ITEM
Extent:	1 letter
Date made:	1788-08-27
Credit:	National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London

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Maskelyne, Nevil, Reverend, Astronomer, 1732-1811; and other members of the Maskelyne family. (Manuscript) (MSK)
- A series of letters to and from Nevil Maskelyne. (Manuscript) (MSK/3)
  - Letters to Nevil Maskelyne from other astronomers, mostly foreign. (Manuscript) (MSK/3/3/1-25)

London Marathon this Sunday

Letter to Nevil Maskelyne from Mungo Park.

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