Letter, from Martha Gerrish to Jonathan Belcher, dated at Cambridge

Reference number: EL/G2/37

Date: 24 December 1734

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Letter addressed to the Governor of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, Belcher, Martha Guerrish sends observations of recent parhelia (mock suns) in New England which the author wanted written in a male hand in the hope that it would be accepted (see EL/G2/38 for details of the parhelia).
Likely by Martha Foxcroft Gerrish (1688-1736) of Massachussetts.

Read to the Royal Society on 20 March 1735
Figure of the parhelia inserted after EL/G2/38

Reference number: EL/G2/37
Earliest possible date: 24 December 1734
Page extent: 2 pages
Format: Manuscript
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Martha Gerrish

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Martha Gerrish, Letter, from Martha Gerrish to Jonathan Belcher, dated at Cambridge, 24 December 1734, EL/G2/37, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_g2_37/letter-from-martha-gerrish-to-jonathan-belcher-dated-at-cambridge, accessed on 14 September 2024

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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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