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  <dc:title>Letter, from Martha Gerrish to Jonathan Belcher, dated at Cambridge</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Letter addressed to the Governor of Massachusetts and New Hampshire, Belcher, Martha Guerrish sends observations of recent parhelia (mock suns) in New England which the author wanted written in a male hand in the hope that it would be accepted (see EL/G2/38 for details of the parhelia).
Likely by Martha Foxcroft Gerrish (1688-1736) of Massachussetts.

Read to the Royal Society on 20 March 1735
Figure of the parhelia inserted after EL/G2/38 </dc:description>
  <dc:date>24 December 1734</dc:date>
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