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Letter, 'Of the earthquake of Nov 18 at Sandgate' from Samuel Warren to John Wyndham Bowyer

Reference number: L&P/3/146

Date: 25 March 1756

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Subject: Geology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of the earthquake, felt February 18, along the coast of England, between Margate and Dover, in a letter from Mr. Samuel Warren, supervisor of excise, to John Windham Bowyer, Esq; one of His Majesty's Commissioners of Excise. Communicated by John Pringle, M. D. F. R. S'

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L&P/3/146
Earliest possible date
25 March 1756
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Ink on paper
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2 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of the earthquake of Nov 18 at Sandgate' from Samuel Warren to John Wyndham Bowyer, 25 March 1756, L&P/3/146, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_146/letter-of-the-earthquake-of-nov-18-at-sandgate-from-samuel-warren-to-john-wyndham-bowyer, accessed on 15 May 2026

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