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Letter, from Charles Balguy to Cromwell Mortimer

Reference number: EL/B3/28

Date: 29 August 1734

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Autograph letter with further observations of preserved dead bodies found in Derbyshire received from Reverend Wormald

Reference number
EL/B3/28
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29 August 1734
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript
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Charles Balguy

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Charles Balguy, Letter, from Charles Balguy to Cromwell Mortimer, 29 August 1734, EL/B3/28, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_b3_28/letter-from-charles-balguy-to-cromwell-mortimer, accessed on 17 April 2026

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