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Letter, 'On Thomas Everitt, the big boy' from John Sherwin to unknown recipient

Reference number: L&P/7/122

Date: 19 November 1779

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Subject: Medicine

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Reference number
L&P/7/122
Earliest possible date
19 November 1779
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Ink on paper
Page extent
2 pages
Format
Manuscript

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Letter, 'On Thomas Everitt, the big boy' from John Sherwin to unknown recipient, 19 November 1779, L&P/7/122, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_7_122/letter-on-thomas-everitt-the-big-boy-from-john-sherwin-to-unknown-recipient, accessed on 10 February 2025

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