Letter 4179

J.T.D. to Petiver –


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Author: J.T.D.
Recipient: Petiver

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: MS 4066
Folio: f. 310



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[…]day Sir, All these things may be ready in a fortnights time. I have set down the [price?] of every thing but the Painted Glass, concerning which you may read at the bottom of the note. I am Sr your humble Servant J.T.D. 25. 0. 0 1. 10. 0 1. 10. 0 3. 15. 0 2. 2. 0 1. 1. 6 3. 10. 0 0 10. 0. 28: 18: 6

Desaguliers provides Petiver with a list of prices for an unspecified quantity of commodities. Desaguliers was the son of French Huguenots who quit France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685). He was a natural philosopher and engineer, became Sir Isaac Newton’s pupil, was a proponent of Newtonianism, and performed lectures and experiments at the Royal Society (Patricia Fara, Desaguliers, John Theophilus (16831744), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7539, accessed 12 July 2013]).




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