Astronomy
by Robert Horace Baker · first published 1930
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…quite a while we had a notebook which went back and forth, and he sent me a problem in maths and I sent the answer,” remembers Joan of that time. Then for her fourteenth birthday, he gave her the book ‘Astronomy’ by Robert Horace Baker. “It was a book people studied at college,” she remembers. “And he’d pasted my name in it. I was so excited.” Somewhat daunted by the advanced level of the book, Joan wrote to…
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