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# Catalogue record: 34442 — Thomas Savery an Friedrich Wilhelm von Schlitz gen. von Görtz (?)
# Incipit: I have indevorsd to answer y_r Lordships
# Date: 1704-10-07 (04-09-26)
# Sender: Savery — Addressee: Leibniz
# Akademie-Ausgabe: AA III,9 N. 218
# Other printings: Vgl.: Gerland, Nachtrag 1882 S.981.
# Record in the Leibniz-Katalog: https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/de/extended-search?id=34442&katnr=52009
# AA III,9: the volume in the Repositorium des Leibniz-Archivs (CC BY-NC 4.0): https://www.gwlb.de/leibniz/digitale-ressourcen/repositorium-des-leibniz-archivs/laa-bd-iii-9
# In the Akademie-Ausgabe: AA III,9 (PDF, Repositorium des Leibniz-Archivs, CC BY-NC 4.0): https://www.gwlb.de/fileadmin/Leibniz/repositorium-des-leibniz-archivs/LAA-BdIII9.pdf#nameddest=218
# Work: https://leibnizlegible.com/work/DE-611-HS-866573
# Title: LBr. 801 · Savery
# Folios: Bl. 1–2 (from the shelfmark LBr 801 Bl. 1-2 (Bl. 2 fehlt; leer?)): 4 pages, canvases 1–4, page ids DE-611-HS-866573:0001 to DE-611-HS-866573:0004
# Original at the GWLB: https://digitale-sammlungen.gwlb.de/resolve?id=DE-611-HS-866573&page=1
# Lines: 75 recognised on 2 of 4 pages, mean confidence 0.82
# Catalogue: Leibniz-Katalog / Arbeitskatalog der Leibniz-Edition (https://leibniz-katalog.bbaw.de/), ed. Arbeitsstelle Potsdam I der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, CC BY 4.0.
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## Folio 1r — DE-611-HS-866573:0001
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