Pieter Rabus wrote Letter L-250 to Leeuwenhoek, a "pleasant" letter now lost
Date:
May 1, 1695
L-number:
L-250
The manuscript is lost and the subject and exact date are unknown.
The only letter prior to 1695 in which L. discusses the ray fish is Letter L-116 of 3 March 1682 to Robert Hooke. The only prior known letter from Rotterdam notary, scholar, and editor Rabus, Letter L-226 of 18 August 1693, does not mention the ray.
Document:
Letter 145 L-254 of 21 May 1695 to Pieter Rabus
Your very pleasant letter as well as the ... has reached me in due time […]
I have been thinking from time to time about your conception, intimated to me in one of your previous letters, as to the shape of the fish we call ray.
