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Letter, 'Of Mount Vesuvius' from William Hamilton to Matthew Maty

Reference number: L&P/5/71

Date: 04 October 1768

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Subject: Archaeology

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'A letter from the Honourable William Hamilton, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary at Naples, to Mathew Maty, M.D. Sec. R. S. containing some farther particulars on Mount Vesuvius, and other volcanos in the neighbourhood'

Read 2 February 1769

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L&P/5/71
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04 October 1768
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Ink on paper
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7 pages
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Manuscript

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William Hamilton

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William Hamilton, Letter, 'Of Mount Vesuvius' from William Hamilton to Matthew Maty, 04 October 1768, L&P/5/71, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_5_71/letter-of-mount-vesuvius-from-william-hamilton-to-matthew-maty, accessed on 16 May 2025

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