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Friday, October 22, 2010

Letter of the Day: October 22

Curatorial Records: Numbered Correspondence 971

October 22, 1895

Mr. R.P. Iddings
Lawrence, Mass.

Dear Sir:

In answer to your letter of the 16th inst., I would state that there is at this Museum among the slides of the late J.J. Woodward, U.S. Army, one which contains the Lord's prayer, written with a diamond, 227 letters, in a space of 1/294 x 1/441 of an inch, or the 1/129654 of a square inch. The legend on the slide says that this is at the rate of 29,431,458 letters to an inch, which is more than there are contained in eight bibles, each bible containing 3,566,480 letters.

Very respectfully,

Dr. L. Huntington

Deputy Surgeon General, U.S. Army
In charge of Army Medical Museum and Library

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