Record

RefNoLBO/21/105
AltRefNoLBO/21/429
LevelFile
TitleCopy letter from Moreton Gilks, Burton upon Trent, Staffordshire, to Cromwell Mortimer
Date2 June 1735
Description ' Giving thanks for his Election into the Royal Society : promising to send a Collection of Derbyshire Fossils for the Repository : and expressing his desire to go to East India, where he intends to collect Curiosities. '

Read at the Royal Society on 5 June 1735
Extent2p
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
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