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Letter, from R[obert] Selbie to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Durham

Reference number: EL/S1/111

Date: 28 April 1671

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Concerns preparing salt of tartar; wishes for a preparation of tincture of coral (details are on reverse); details of a man who could not defecate; wishing to know what happened to the person who declined to bathe

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EL/S1/111
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28 April 1671
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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Robert Selbie

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Robert Selbie, Letter, from R[obert] Selbie to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Durham, 28 April 1671, EL/S1/111, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_s1_111/letter-from-robert-selbie-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-durham, accessed on 13 January 2026

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    Dates: 1613 - 1740

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