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Letter, 'Of the Essex steeples (Danbury) struck by lightning' from Smart Lethieullier to Martin Folkes

Reference number: L&P/2/53

Date: 27 February 1750

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Subject: Meteorology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Smart Lethieullier Esq; F. R. S. to the President, of the burning of the steeple of Danbury in Essex, by lightning, and of the earthquake'

Read 1 March 1750

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L&P/2/53
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27 February 1750
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4 pages
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Manuscript

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Smart Lethieullier

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Smart Lethieullier, Letter, 'Of the Essex steeples (Danbury) struck by lightning' from Smart Lethieullier to Martin Folkes, 27 February 1750, L&P/2/53, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_53/letter-of-the-essex-steeples-danbury-struck-by-lightning-from-smart-lethieullier-to-martin-folkes, accessed on 13 June 2026

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