Letter, from Patrick Blair to Hans Sloane, dated at Boston
Reference number: EL/B2/69
Date: 30 November 1721
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Autograph letter with an account of new species of 'Absynthium' (absinth - woody plant)
Read to the Royal Society on 9 November 1721
- Reference number
- EL/B2/69
- Earliest possible date
- 30 November 1721
- Page extent
- 3 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Patrick Blair, Patrick Blair, Letter, from Patrick Blair to Hans Sloane, dated at Boston, 30 November 1721, EL/B2/69, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_b2_69/letter-from-patrick-blair-to-hans-sloane-dated-at-boston, accessed on 14 November 2025
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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
1613-1740 Reference number: EL -
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Hans Sloane
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Patrick Blair
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