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Letter: For the record – 5 October 2019

Published 2 October 2019

• The earliest of our photos of the Mer de Glace glacier was taken in 1919 (21 September, p 8).

• The United Nations is an income of US$1.90 per person per day adjusted to 2011 purchasing power parity (7 September, p 46).

• Flaming hell. Harold Gasson was employed by the Great Western Railway to stoke fires, not extinguish them (Feedback, 14 September).

Issue no. 3250 published 5 October 2019

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