Janus: John Woodward: Correspondence

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MS Add.7647	John Woodward: Correspondence
MS Add.7649	Jessie, Lady Anderson: Letters of her Family and Friends
MS Add.7651	Wyon Family: Business and Personal Papers
MS Add.7652	Adam Sedgwick: Letters and Papers
MS Add.7653	Ernest, Lord Rutherford: Correspondence and Papers
MS Add.7654	Sir Joseph John Thomson: Correspondence and Papers
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John Woodward: Correspondence

Title	John Woodward: Correspondence
Reference	GBR/0012/MS Add.7647
Creator	Woodward, John, 1665-1728
Covering Dates	1695–1727
Extent and Medium	1 box
Repository	Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives

Content and context

John Woodward (1665-1728), geologist, physician and author; Professor of Physics at Gresham College, London.

Letters to Woodward on medical, scientific, antiquarian and theological topics, 150 items. The collection includes drafts of his replies, and a few letters between other persons which were passed on to Woodward. The principal correspondents include Dr John Allen of Bridgwater (1-25); Thomas Baker of St John's College, Cambridge (26-44); Abbé Jean-Paul Bignon (50-63); Herman Boerhaave (64-70); Louis Bourget (71-76); Gisbert Cuypers (Cuperus) (95-102); and John Edwards, D.D., of Cambridge (114-122).

Purchased from Walter T. Spencer, 1964.

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Please cite as Cambridge University Library, Department of Manuscripts and University Archives, John Woodward: Correspondence, MS Add.7647

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