Letter, from John Winthrop to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Salem in Massachusetts colony
Reference number: EL/W3/27
Date: 25 September 1673
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States that he has several items to send to the Royal Society; concerning a comet seen in the skies near Boston
- Reference number
- EL/W3/27
- Earliest possible date
- 25 September 1673
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- 1 page
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- Manuscript
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John Winthrop, John Winthrop, Letter, from John Winthrop to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Salem in Massachusetts colony, 25 September 1673, EL/W3/27, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_w3_27/letter-from-john-winthrop-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-salem-in-massachusetts-colony, accessed on 13 June 2026
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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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Henry Oldenburg
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John Winthrop
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