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Notes: Smithsonian Institution Libraries. Manuscripts of the Dibner collection, 946; Collected by Bern Dibner for his Burndy Library in Norwalk, Connecticut, founded in 1941. Donated to the Smithsonian Libraries in 1974 by Dibner DSI
Summary: A.L.S. ([18]58 Feb. 3, Washington) to J. M. Carlisle critiquing his court case in which he alledged fraud on the part of an inventor. Gunton details the statistics of wood burning aboard the Columbia before and after the fraudulant invention was used