Letter, 'A journey from Cairo to the written mountains' from Edward Wortley Montagu to William Watson
Reference number: L&P/4/309
Date: 1766

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Subject: Geography
Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from Edward Wortley Montagu, Esquire, F. R. S. to William Watson, M.D. F. R. S. containing an account of his journey from Cairo, in Egypt, to the Written Mountains, in the desert of Sinaï'
Read 13 March 1766
- Reference number
- L&P/4/309
- Earliest possible date
- 1766
- Physical description
- Ink on paper
- Page extent
- 10 pages
- Format
- Manuscript
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Edward Wortley Montagu, Letter, 'A journey from Cairo to the written mountains' from Edward Wortley Montagu to William Watson, 1766, L&P/4/309, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_309/letter-a-journey-from-cairo-to-the-written-mountains-from-edward-wortley-montagu-to-william-watson, accessed on 06 February 2025
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