Robert Wodrow - Edward Lhuyd - 1702-01-12

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Robert Wodrow

Robert Wodrow - Edward Lhuyd - 1702-01-12
FINA IDUnique ID of the page  16212
InstitutionName of Institution.
InventoryInventory number.
AuthorAuthor of the document. Robert Wodrow
RecipientRecipient of the correspondence. Edward Lhuyd
Correspondence dateDate when the correspondence was written: day - month - year . January 12, 1702
PlacePlace of publication of the book, composition of the document or institution.
Associated personsNames of Persons who are mentioned in the annotation.
LiteratureReference to literature. Sharp 1937, pp. 187-9, letter 941, Burnett 2020b, p. 8102
KeywordNumismatic Keywords  Fossils , Shells , University Collection , Glasgow
LanguageLanguage of the correspondence English
External LinkLink to external information, e.g. Wikpedia 
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Grand documentOriginal passage from the "Grand document".

'I am making a collection of quhat fossiles (quherof yours makes noe small part), shells, coins, &c., that I can fall on hereabouts, and desing to leave them to the University quhen I goe from the post that I am in. I promise my self your kind help to forward this with any thing you can spare.' (Sharp 1937, pp. 187-9, letter 94; Burnett 2020b, p. 810)

References

  1. ^  Sharp, L.W. (ed.)(1937) Early Letters of Robert Wodrow 1698-1709, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press.
  2. ^  Burnett, Andrew M. (2020), The Hidden Treasures of this Happy Land. A History of Numismatics in Britain from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, BNS Special Publ. No 14 = RNS Special Publ. No 58, London, Spink & Son.