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Letter, 'Of a giant boy, Thos Hale of Willingham' from Thomas Dawkes to Richard Mead

Reference number: L&P/1/340

Date: 03 October 1744

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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Some account of the gigantic boy at Willingham near Cambridge'

Read 10 January 1745

Reference number
L&P/1/340
Earliest possible date
03 October 1744
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
7 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of a giant boy, Thos Hale of Willingham' from Thomas Dawkes to Richard Mead, 03 October 1744, L&P/1/340, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_340/letter-of-a-giant-boy-thos-hale-of-willingham-from-thomas-dawkes-to-richard-mead, accessed on 16 September 2024

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