MS/426 p315, ‘Copy letter from Walter White, Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society, B H [Burlington House, to Reverend C W [Charles William] Knyvett’
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Copy of a letter from Walter White to Reverend Charles William Knyvett, written from Burlington House and dated 9 November 1869
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CMV37394 — Note describing letters to be presented to the Royal Society, 1878
Copy of a letter from Walter White to Reverend Charles William Knyvett, written from Burlington House and dated 9 November 1869.
Detailed Summary:
White opens by confirming that he had received Knyvett’s memorandum of an inscription for the portrait of James Jurin that will be presented to the Royal Society. He adds that the Society would like to maintain in their collections the letters sent to Jurin by: Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, Georges-Louis Leclerc, comte de Buffon, Pierre Louis Maupertuis, and Voltaire.