ABSTRACT
Lost letters dating from 1661 are as follows:
Wotton’s list (above, p. xxvii) includes the following:
No. 40 ‘Dr. Dickinson’. For Edmund Dickinson, see above, p. 400n.
No. 41 ‘Mr. Willmaine’. This correspondent has not been identified.
No. 43 ‘F. Clodius to Mr. Boyle’.
No. 44 ‘Id’ [Clodius to Boyle].
No. 45 ‘Id.’ [Clodius to Boyle].
No. 46 ‘Bishop Boyle (primate) 61’. This is Boyle’s cousin, Michael Boyle, bishop of Cork, from whom a letter of 13 August 1662 survives; see vol. 2, pp. 41–3.
No. 49 ‘Mr. Oldenburgh’.
No. 51 ‘Mr. Paston’. This is Robert Paston (1631–83), Norfolk landowner and courtier, later Earl of Yarmouth, who was admitted to the Royal Society in December 1661.
