| Reference number | EL/W3/51 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Letter, from Nicolaus Witsen to Henry Oldenburg |
| Creator | Witsen; Nicholaes Corneliszoon (1651-1717); Dutch politician; collector; mayor of Amsterdam; administrator of the Dutch East India Company |
| Date | 1671 |
| Description | Sends a book about Ceylon and has added the Russian alphabet and sketch of the city of Novgorod to it; postscript states that he will send the anatomical sketches of a silkworm and bee by Jan Swammerdam |
| Language | Latin |
| Extent | 1p |
| Format | Manuscript |
| Access status | Open |
| Related material | Transcription in 'The correspondence of Henry Oldenburg', ed and trans by A Rupert Hall & Marie Boas Hall, vol 8, p 396 |
| URL description | Also available on Early Modern Letters Online |
| URL | http://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/d76df9a5-0b70-4361-8ec7-8331f0476aa3 |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA8001 | Oldenburg; Henry (c1619 - 1677); scientific correspondent | c1619 - 1677 |
| NA8030 | Witsen; Nicolaus (1641 - 1717); statesman and collector | 1641 - 1717 |