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
- Reference number
- EL/S1/111
- Earliest possible date
- 28 April 1671
- Page extent
- 3 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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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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