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Letter, 'Antiquities found at Portici from James Gray to Thomas Robinson

Reference number: L&P/2/542

Date: 29 October 1754

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Subject: Antiquities

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Extract of a letter from Sir James Gray, Bart, his Majesty's envoy to the King of Naples, to the Right Honourable Sir Thomas Robinson, Knight of the Bath, one of his Majesty's Secretaries of State, relating to the same discoveries at Herculaneum'

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L&P/2/542
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29 October 1754
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3 pages
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Manuscript

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James Gray

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James Gray, Letter, 'Antiquities found at Portici from James Gray to Thomas Robinson, 29 October 1754, L&P/2/542, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_2_542/letter-antiquities-found-at-portici-from-james-gray-to-thomas-robinson, accessed on 02 December 2024

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