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Letter, 'Description of the King's Wells at Sheerness, Landguard Fort and Harwich' from Thomas Hyde Page to Charles Rainsford

Reference number: L&P/8/44

Date: 20 March 1783

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Subject: Engineering

Published in Philosophical Transactions, as 'Description of the King's Wells at Sheerness, Languard-Fort, and Harwich'

Read 20 November 1783

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L&P/8/44
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20 March 1783
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Ink on paper
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25 pages
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Manuscript

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Thomas Hyde Page

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Thomas Hyde Page, Letter, 'Description of the King's Wells at Sheerness, Landguard Fort and Harwich' from Thomas Hyde Page to Charles Rainsford, 20 March 1783, L&P/8/44, The Royal Society Archives, London, https://makingscience.royalsociety.org/items/l-and-p_8_44/letter-description-of-the-kings-wells-at-sheerness-landguard-fort-and-harwich-from-thomas-hyde-page-to-charles-rainsford, accessed on 18 September 2024

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