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RefNoRB/1/39/10
Previous numbersBP 39, fols. 95-181
LevelItem
Title'An Account of Virginia' [by John Clayton].
DateLate 17th century
DescriptionVarious sections of text, relating to others in BP 44: cf. pencil notes by R.P.Stearns at fols. 105, 107 and 140.\r\nThe material can be divided as follows: \r\nF 95-105 is a single text, which goes with (and ends at) fol. 140. This then refers to the 1671 text now in BP 44, fols. 117-26, after which commences an untitled commentary on this (ibid., fols. 127-32). Fols. 107-22 of the present volume follow on from BP 44, fol. 132, with fols. 141 to 180 following fol. 122. After fol. 180 the sequence is apparently: fols. 106, 123-5, 127-39 and 181. Fol. 126 is an unrelated item, a picture of Clayton's speaking trumpet (on this and Boyle's interest in it, cf. E. and D.S.Berkeley, (eds.), 'The Revd. John Clayton' (Charlottesville, 1965), xxxvi.) \r\nHand: evidently partly holograph, partly scribal.
LanguageEnglish
ExtentFols. 95-181 (87 leaves)
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialSee R.P. Stearns, 'Science in the British Colonies of America' (Urbana, 1970), pp. 188-91.
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