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Letter, 'Of Lord Walpoles' death' from John Pringle to Robert Whytt

Reference number: L&P/3/236

Date: 1757

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Subject: Correspondence

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the case of the late Right Honourable Horace Lord Walpole; being a sequel to his own account published in the Philosophical Transaction, vol. xlvii. p. 43. and 472'

Read 21 April 1757

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L&P/3/236
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1757
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Ink on paper
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7 pages
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Manuscript

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John Pringle

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John Pringle, Letter, 'Of Lord Walpoles' death' from John Pringle to Robert Whytt, 1757, L&P/3/236, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_3_236/letter-of-lord-walpoles-death-from-john-pringle-to-robert-whytt, accessed on 03 October 2024

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