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Letter, from Nathaniel Fairfax to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Woodbridge

Reference number: EL/F1/14

Date: 18 March 1668

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Signed autograph
Account of a deformed stillborn baby

Reference number
EL/F1/14
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18 March 1668
Page extent
2 pages
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Manuscript
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Nathaniel Fairfax

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Nathaniel Fairfax, Letter, from Nathaniel Fairfax to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Woodbridge, 18 March 1668, EL/F1/14, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_f1_14/letter-from-nathaniel-fairfax-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-woodbridge, accessed on 16 May 2025

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