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Autograph letter with an account of a thunderstorm near Ipswich, Suffolk, and in particular about those wounded on a boat which was coming into Harwich at that time. Excerpt of letter published in the Philosophical Transactions, vol 26, no 316, pp.137-8.

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EL/B2/64
Earliest possible date
20 July 1708
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Orlando Bridgeman

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Orlando Bridgeman, Letter, from [Orlando] Bridgeman [to William Winde], dated at Ipswich, Suffolk, 20 July 1708, EL/B2/64, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_b2_64/letter-from-orlando-bridgeman-to-william-winde-dated-at-ipswich-suffolk, accessed on 05 December 2025

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