Letter, from Wait Winthrop to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Boston

Reference number: EL/W3/28

Date: 17 October 1671

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Sends items from Boston, New England, for his father, John Winthrop - an Indian [sic] bow, quiver and arrows, sword of a fish, small fish with horn on its back
Read to the Royal Society on 7 December 1671

Reference number: EL/W3/28
Earliest possible date: 17 October 1671
Page extent: 1 page
Format: Manuscript
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Wait Winthrop

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Wait Winthrop, Letter, from Wait Winthrop to Henry Oldenburg, dated at Boston, 17 October 1671, EL/W3/28, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_w3_28/letter-from-wait-winthrop-to-henry-oldenburg-dated-at-boston, accessed on 03 December 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
Early Letters W3
1642-1736 Reference number: EL/W3

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