Wrote Letter L-096 of 1679-11-20 to Robert Hooke, copying his Letter L-095 of 14 November 1679 about gout, salt, and drinking tea

Date: 
November 20, 1679
Standard reference information
L-number: 
L-096
Collected Letters number: 
53
Collected Letters volume: 
3

Text of the letter in the original Dutch and in English translation from Alle de Brieven. The Collected Letters at the DBNL - De Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren.

The signed autograph on four quarto pages is in London, Royal Society (MS. 1875. L l. 46).


Leeuwenhoek wrote this letter to Hooke, copying his whole Letter L-095 of 14 November 1679 to Velthuysen about gout and bladder stones. He added opening and closing paragraphs directed explicitly to Hooke.

This letter was not published during Leeuwenhoek's lifetime.