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Elizabeth Lyttleton (c.1648 - 1736)

Married Captain George Lyttleton on 19 December 1680, with whom she traveled abroad (Barbour 433, 468). Relationships: Elizabeth Lyttleton was a daughter of Dorothy Browne (c.1622-24 Feb 1685)
Elizabeth Lyttleton was a daughter of Thomas Browne (19 Nov 1605-19 Oct 1682)

 Linked print sources: as Author (in assoc. with a ms or print source) - The Commonplace Book of Elizabeth Lyttelton, Daughter of Sir Thomas Browne. Description by G. Keynes. [Containing extracts by Sir Thomas Browne.] .
as Subject of/in a document - Contexts for Women's Manuscript Miscellanies: The Case of Elizabeth Lyttelton and Sir Thomas Browne.
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What minerall waters you see you may tast, butt take downe none, nor any way hazard the discomposure of your body. We are all glad you have layd by the thoughts of Turkey or Turkesh dominions. Observe the great jaspis agayne, whether of a good green colour where it is worne. What kind of stone is that which stoned St. Stephen, pebble, flint, or freestone? See the emperour's librarie or any other. De Terris Bohemicis you may read in Musaeum Wormianum, terra Bohemica, Silesiaca, &c. whereof divers. I have conferred with some who knowe the country about Saltzberg well, for that is plentifull in mines, mineralls, sallts, sulphur, antimony, &c. Mr. Scoltow is much out of London, at his mothers; cosen John Cradock is constant at Mr. Thomas his howse, at the Sheaf, in Covent Garden. Hee was heere [at] Christmas, and Nancy never out of London. The Bishop, Mr. Hawkins, Mr. Dentry, now with the Bishop, Whitefoot, Robins, Bendish, and all friends, present respects. Your mother, Betty, Moll, and Franck, also. I have payd the bills of fortie pounds. I hope you will not bee to seeke for credit, as at your coming to Vienna; but that you may go on upon the former credit, as need requireth, in your returne. Sir Tho. Woodhowse, now with me, presents his respects. We all hope your returne before the hott wether.

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Dear Brother,

Wee are mightily delighted with your little pictures. Now I hope you will be heare as soon as you can. My sister is still at Clerkenwell, and I believe ever will be out. Every body you left, they all desire to see you, cheefly

Your affectionate sister, E. Browne.
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Sir Thomas Browne to his son Edward [MS. SLOAN. 1847.] [April, 1682.] Dear Sonne,

I presume by this time you receaved my letter, by Captain Lulman. I receaved yours last weeke, with Dr. Grewe's paper of proposalls, and I am willing to subscribe for one booke myself, and will shewe the paper unto others, and probably some may subscribe, butt others may bee backward, there having been so many subscriptions to other bookes, and some now on foot. I should bee willing to do him any service. You had a kind of fungus not usual, fungus ligneus lanterniforis, like the lanterne of a building; and you had also I thinck the draught thereof. I have also a draught by mee; if you remember not what you did with it, I can send you the draught. It was found within a rotten willowe. Of the Lapis obsidianus Islandicus you had a peece, which I receaved from Island; and I have another peece of three times the bignesse. There is a rock of it in Island, butt at a good distance from the sea, and I beleeve it is not usual to meet with such a stone. Among the draughts of birds which Mr. Martyn had, I thinck there is the icon of an unusuall kind of locust, which was given mee long ago, and brought from the West Indies, butt I never sawe another; which I was fayne to call locusta sonora, as supposing that Odde horny excursion or prominence, running beyond the 3 Probably, "Proposals for printing his Anatomy of Plants," which were read to the Royal Society, March 15, 1681-2, and printed in that year, fol. Lond. 1682. 340 DOMESTIC CORRESPONDENCE. [1682. head, made the sound the lowder. I have the animal, and will have it drawne out, if need bee. Wee all long to heare of my daughter Browne's safe delivery. Pray present my service to my sister Whiting and Mr. Whiting. God blesse you all.

Your louing father, Thomas Browne.