Letter from John Swinton, Christ Church, Oxford, to Thomas Birch The letter gives "an account of a remarkable meteor seen at Oxford" on the 21st September 1760 Swinton reports some of the local people believing the meteor to be the sign of a "calamitous event". With letter from J Mynde, printer of the 'Philosophical Transactions', on sending a proof of the plate of a drawing of a meteor's path to Swinton (letter dated 1768). Mynde's letter relates to another by Swinton on meteors (Description of a Meteor Seen at Oxford, October 12, 1766), published in 'Philosophical Transactions', Vol. 57, pp108-110 23 September 1760