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  • Ask to find a specific letter. Find a letter written by Svante Arrhenius in the Bredig Papers Collection.

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    • Can you locate the translation of a letter from Svante Arrhenius to Georg Bredig written in January of 1896?

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Letter from Svante Arrhenius to Georg Bredig, January 1896: long, handwritten, has a description, transcription, and translation.

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