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Letter, from Edward Brown to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Norwich

Reference number: EL/B1/141

Date: 26 November 1669

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Autograph letter stating that Petrus Lambecius, Imperial librarian in Vienna, is willing to have any of the alchemy manuscripts transcribed for the Royal Society and that Brown had brought more minerals from Hungary
Read to the Royal Society on 3 February 1669

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EL/B1/141
Earliest possible date
26 November 1669
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Edward Brown

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Edward Browne

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Edward Brown, Edward Browne, Letter, from Edward Brown to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Norwich, 26 November 1669, EL/B1/141, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_b1_141/letter-from-edward-brown-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-norwich, accessed on 17 June 2025

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