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Letter, 'Alterations to the Pantheon at Rome' from unknown author to Thomas Hollis

Reference number: L&P/3/226

Date: 12 January 1757

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Subject: Antiquities

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the alterations making in the Pantheon at Rome: In an extract of a letter from Rome to Thomas Hollis, Esq; Communicated by John Ward, LL. D. R. S. Vice-Præs'

Read3 March 1757

Reference number
L&P/3/226
Earliest possible date
12 January 1757
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
3 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'Alterations to the Pantheon at Rome' from unknown author to Thomas Hollis, 12 January 1757, L&P/3/226, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_226/letter-alterations-to-the-pantheon-at-rome-from-unknown-author-to-thomas-hollis, accessed on 14 February 2025

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