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Letter, 'Of a lady whose clothes sparkled' from Henry Miles to Martin Folkes

Reference number: L&P/1/402

Date: 19 May 1745

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Subject: Physics

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from the Reverend Henry Miles D. D. and F. R. S. to the President; containing observations of luminous emanations from human bodies, and from brutes; with some remarks on electricity'

Read 13 June 1745

Reference number
L&P/1/402
Earliest possible date
19 May 1745
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Ink on paper
Page extent
5 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Henry Miles

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Henry Miles, Letter, 'Of a lady whose clothes sparkled' from Henry Miles to Martin Folkes, 19 May 1745, L&P/1/402, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_1_402/letter-of-a-lady-whose-clothes-sparkled-from-henry-miles-to-martin-folkes, accessed on 06 December 2025

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