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John Winthrop
Henry Oldenburg
Concerning the non-delivery of letters to New England because of bad weather; concerning mines in North America and experiments in salt-works; concerning maize and a new way of making tar; discussing telescopes Account of a fire at a farm-house at Farmington (plantation near Hartford in Connecticut) with discussion of the houses and thatch, and a discussion of seaweed as manure for apple trees. Account is inserted within this letter.
12 November 1668 Sender: John Winthrop , John Winthrop Reference number: EL/W3/21
1669
Concerning delivery of letters from New England; sends some small oaks and then gives an account about them; he also sends a pail made of birch, some Indian [sic] money, and winter wheat Read to the Royal Society on 10 February 1669
04 October 1669 Sender: John Winthrop , John Winthrop Reference number: EL/W3/22
1670
States that he has sent a stellar fish, cranberries, skins of rattle snakes (with account about them), Virginia snakeweed, Indian [sic] corn, dwarf oaks, butternut tree (of the walnut family), horn fish, all from New England; concerning a natural history of New England Read to the Royal Society on 27 October 1670
26 August 1670 Sender: John Winthrop , John Winthrop Reference number: EL/W3/23
Concerns sending a hummingbird with nest and eggs to the Royal Society; states that he will send some more cranberries for Oldenburg himself Read to the Royal Society on 23 March 1670
11 October 1670 Sender: John Winthrop , John Winthrop Reference number: EL/W3/25
Account of stellar fish and other shellfish; sending Indian [sic] corn, hummingbird, silk grass and cranberries to the Royal Society
26 October 1670 Sender: John Winthrop , John Winthrop Reference number: EL/W3/26
1673
