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Letter, 'Of the plague at Aleppo' from Thomas Dawes to Charles Lyttelton

Reference number: L&P/4/141

Date: 26 October 1762

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Subject: Physiology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'An account of the plague, at Aleppo: In a letter to the Rev. Charles Lyttelton, LL. D. Dean of Exeter, now Lord Bishop of Carlisle, and F. R. S. from the Reverend Mr. Thomas Dawes, chaplain to the factory at Aleppo'

Read 17 February 1763

Reference number
L&P/4/141
Earliest possible date
26 October 1762
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
8 pages
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Manuscript

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Letter, 'Of the plague at Aleppo' from Thomas Dawes to Charles Lyttelton, 26 October 1762, L&P/4/141, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_141/letter-of-the-plague-at-aleppo-from-thomas-dawes-to-charles-lyttelton, accessed on 22 March 2025

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