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Subject: Physiology/Curiosities

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Account of an infant musician'

Read 18 February 1779

Reference number
L&P/7/103
Earliest possible date
07 February 1779
Physical description
Ink on paper
Page extent
20 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Charles Burney

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Charles Burney, Letter, 'Account of an infant musician' by Charles Burney to William Hunter [Copy], 07 February 1779, L&P/7/103, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_103/letter-account-of-an-infant-musician-by-charles-burney-to-william-hunter-copy, accessed on 07 December 2024

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