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An attempt to explain whence the virtues of the Bath waters proceed : Correspondence c.1680.
Literary Manuscripts Leeds: Sources from The Brotherton Library, University of Leeds Available online
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- Book
- Manuscript
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 f
- Place of Publication:
- Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2006.
- Summary:
- Manuscript poem which wittily suggests that the waters of Bath work their cures not as a result of salts and minerals but because women bathe in them, thereby sending forth healing
- Notes:
- AMDigital Reference:Lt q 1
- The author of the poem is unknown. Addressed on verso "To Mr Will. Roberts coast waiter at the custome house Lond." Recto now foliated 81, apparently when assembled into the same collection relating to Bath as that from which Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 13 derives
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