GB 0117 EL - Early Letters

38 volumes containing 4,390 items

GB 0117 EL 1613; 1642; 1651-1740 Collection (fonds) 38 volumes containing 4,390 items Various

Original manuscripts of letters to the Royal Society, which are largely scientific. These papers form the raw material from which the Letter Books were compiled. There are many letters of importance, 1613; 1642; 1651-1740.

Volumes are arranged alphabetically by author, and chronologically within author groups, with a single supplementary volume of letters essentially to Robert Boyle from Henry Oldenburg and from John Beale. This order was published in 1840 by Shuckard, who numbered each letter sequentially in his catalogue. The numbering system used here is the item number assigned to individual letters within each volume and not Shuckard's system. A few letters were added after 1840.

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No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

English, French, Latin and Dutch

The volumes were rebound in 1991and 1992.

Alphabetical list of correspondents published in W E Shuckard, 'Catalogues of the miscellaneous manuscripts and of the manuscript letters in the possession of the Royal Society' (London: Royal Society, 1840), with dates.

Letters have been microfilmed by University Publications of America (UPA).

Copied from the Royal Society catalogue by Sarah Drewery.

General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

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Original manuscripts of letters to the Royal Society, which are largely scientific. These papers form the raw material from which the Letter Books were compiled. There are many letters of importance, 1613; 1642; 1651-1740.

Volumes are arranged alphabetically by author, and chronologically within author groups, with a single supplementary volume of letters essentially to Robert Boyle from Henry Oldenburg and from John Beale. This order was published in 1840 by Shuckard, who numbered each letter sequentially in his catalogue. The numbering system used here is the item number assigned to individual letters within each volume and not Shuckard's system. A few letters were added after 1840.

Open

No publication without written permission. Apply to Archivist in the first instance.

• anglais

• latin

English, French, Latin and Dutch

Alphabetical list of correspondents published in W E Shuckard, 'Catalogues of the miscellaneous manuscripts and of the manuscript letters in the possession of the Royal Society' (London: Royal Society, 1840), with dates.

Letters have been microfilmed by University Publications of America (UPA).

General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

• anglais