Letter, from John Woolhouse to James Jurin, dated at Paris
Reference number: EL/W3/98
Date: 24 January 1721
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Thanks for being elected to the Fellowship; states that since moving abroad for the last nine years, he has achieved a reputation for his work as an oculist, and that at present, the King of France has made him his interpreter in his libraries
Read to the Royal Society on 18 January 1721
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- EL/W3/98
- Earliest possible date
- 24 January 1721
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- 4 pages
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- Manuscript
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John Thomas Woolhouse, Letter, from John Woolhouse to James Jurin, dated at Paris, 24 January 1721, EL/W3/98, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/el_w3_98/letter-from-john-woolhouse-to-james-jurin-dated-at-paris, accessed on 15 October 2024
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'Early letters': letters from correspondents in natural philosophy sent to the Royal Society and its Fellows
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James Jurin
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John Thomas Woolhouse
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