Record

RefNoEL/B2/44
LevelItem
TitleLetter, from James Brodie [to the Royal Society]
CreatorBrodie; James (fl 1697)
Date1697
DescriptionAutograph letter with an account of the delivery of a dead foetus through the navel of an enslaved woman from Nevis, West Indies
Read to the Royal Society on 2 June 1697
Transcribed in LBO/11(2)/140
Printed in 'Philosophical Transactions', vol 19, no 229, p 580
LanguageEnglish
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionDOI: 10.1098/rstl.1695.0105
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AccessStatusOpen
RelatedRecordRBO/7/64
URLDescriptionAlso available on Early Modern Letters Online
URLhttp://emlo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/profile/work/5fb3cab7-19cf-4e64-b05a-7fae31d2f814
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