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Letter, 'Of Pompey's pillar in Egypt' from Edward Wortley Montagu to William Watson

Reference number: L&P/4/409

Date: 10 October 1767

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Subject: Archaeology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from Edward Wortley Montagu, Esquire, F. R. S. to William Watson, M. D. F. R. S. containing some new observations on what is called Pompey's Pillar, in Egypt'

Read 19 November 1767

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L&P/4/409
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10 October 1767
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Ink on paper
Page extent
4 pages
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Manuscript

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Edward Wortley Montagu

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Edward Wortley Montagu, Letter, 'Of Pompey's pillar in Egypt' from Edward Wortley Montagu to William Watson, 10 October 1767, L&P/4/409, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_4_409/letter-of-pompeys-pillar-in-egypt-from-edward-wortley-montagu-to-william-watson, accessed on 23 June 2025

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