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Letter, 'Of the same earthquake' from P Doddridge to Henry Baker

Reference number: L&P/2/172

Date: 17 October 1750

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from the Rev. P. Doddridge D. D. to Mr. Henry Baker F. R. S. containing some account of the late earthquake felt at Northampton'

Read 25 October 1750

Reference number
L&P/2/172
Earliest possible date
17 October 1750
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
6 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of the same earthquake' from P Doddridge to Henry Baker, 17 October 1750, L&P/2/172, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_172/letter-of-the-same-earthquake-from-p-doddridge-to-henry-baker, accessed on 12 June 2026

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