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Letter, from Cotton Mather to James Jurin

Reference number: EL/M2/44

Date: 10 June 1723

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Mather sends a parcel of communications about the success of inoculation with smallpox through Isaac Greenwood; recommends that Jurin examines Greenwood who was one of the people inoculated

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EL/M2/44
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10 June 1723
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1 page
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Manuscript

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Cotton Mather

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Cotton Mather, Cotton Mather, Letter, from Cotton Mather to James Jurin, 10 June 1723, EL/M2/44, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_m2_44/letter-from-cotton-mather-to-james-jurin, accessed on 13 July 2025

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    Dates: 1613 - 1740

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