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[1747] - 1762 Nov, n.p.
21 p.; 32 x 21 cm.
Letters discuss Mounsey's positions
as an army physician and court
physician in Russia; also discusses
a treatment for rabies, an earthquake
in Siberia, and introduces the
rhubarb.
109/I/77,84,96 and 109/II/166,168

1746 Nov - 1749 Feb
London
16 p.; 32 x 21 cm.
Letters discuss extrasensory
perception; mention David Erskine,
9th earl of Buchan (1672-1745),
Alexander Hume Campbell (1708-1760),
and George MacKenzie, 1st earl of
Cromarty (1630-1714).
109/I/59,64,72,101 and 109/II/114

1746 Dec - [1758] Jul
London
18 p.; 32 x 21 cm.
Letters discuss: the Royal Society
of London; experiments with
electricity carried out by Sir
William Watson (1715-1787); theories
of John Hill (1716?-1778); the
classifications of Linneus (Carl von
Linne, 1707-1778); Peter Camper
(1722-1789); William Stukeley
(1687-1765); the death of John
Montagu (2nd duke of Montagu,
1690-1749); Richard Wilkes
(1691-1760); Robert Clayton (Bp. of
Clogher, 1695-1758).
109/I/61,87 and
109/II/116,117,164,165

[1743] Dec - 1747 Aug
London
14 p.; 32 x 21 cm.
Letters discuss: Abraham Trembley
(1700-1784); George Anson, baron
Anson (1697-1762); various electrical
experiments; and the Jacobite
Rebellion of 1745-1746.
109/I/24,31,44,47,54,78

1743 Jun - 1745 Feb
Athelstaneford
13 p.; 32 x 21 cm.
Letters discuss Baker's and Blair's
works and microscopes; a poem
entitled "Sacharissa Weeping" is
also included.
109/I/15,17,21,27,29,35

1746 Dec - 1749 Aug
Gardald
35 p.; 32 x 21 cm.
Letters discuss instances of second
sight and extrasensory perception.
109/I/62,65,69,73,97,108
and 109/II/118

1753 Nov - 1770 Nov
London
31 p.; 32 x 21 cm.
Letters discuss political affairs in
England: trouble with the American
colonies and India; food prices;
Jewish enfranchisement; the ministry
of Augustus Henry Fitzroy, 3rd duke
of Grafton (1735-1811); allegations
of corruption by Samuel Musgrave
(1732-1780); attempts to clean and
illuminate London; affairs of Thomas
Birch (1705-1766) and John Wilkes
(1727-1797).
109/II/152,180,186,198,205,207,209

1747 Nov - 1751 Jan
London
32 p.; 32 x 21 cm.
Letters discuss: the education of
deaf mutes; the development of
Philosophical Societies; the London
earthquake (1750); the method of
innoculation proposed by John Ranby
(1703-1773); also mentions the
Christmas party given by John
Montagu, 2nd duke of Montagu
(1690-1749).
109/I/ 89,92,95,104 and
109/II/112,125,131,136

1743 Jun - 1746,
London
18 p.; 32 x 21 cm.
Letters discuss: Baker's winning the
Copley Medal and his "History of the
Polype"; George Adams; George
Berkeley, bp. of Cloyne (1685-1753);
Martin Folkes (1690-1754); Thomas
Thompson (d.1763); and the death of
Alexander Pope (1688-1744).
109/I/16,20,23,28,30,33,39,49

1743 Dec - 1752 Aug
Norwich
23 p.; 32 x 21 cm.
Letters discuss a visit by John
Theophilus Desaguliers (1683-1744).
109/I/26,42,43,46,80 and
109/II/128,130,134,145