Letter, from Richard Waller to Cotton Mather
Reference number: EL/W3/79
Date: 01 January 1712
Description
Thanks him for sending his letters on 'curiosa Americana' through Dr Woodward; states that his election to the Fellowship will be deferred; in postscript requests more information about the size of the moose deer and about the meteor witnessed in the summer of 1711
On reverse, a copy of a letter to Tomaso Campailla has been crossed out
- Reference number
- EL/W3/79
- Earliest possible date
- 01 January 1712
- Page extent
- 4 pages
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- Manuscript
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Richard Waller
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Richard Waller, Richard Waller, Letter, from Richard Waller to Cotton Mather, 01 January 1712, EL/W3/79, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_w3_79/letter-from-richard-waller-to-cotton-mather, accessed on 22 January 2026
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