Leeuwenhoek did not publish any letters after 1718 in book form with his own summaries. The summary below comes from Alle de Brieven / Collected Letters.
L. responds to James Jurin’s letter of 15 May 1722. No one whom L. knows in Delft can translate L.’s letters to Latin, as Jurin had requested. L. doubts that inoculations protect against smallpox, using his daughter’s experience as an example. L. promises to investigate HANS SLOANE’s question about whether there are little animals in scabrous skin. L. returns the greetings of JOHN CHAMBERLAYNE. He adds a postscript about sending future numbers of Philosophical Transactions via a Rotterdam merchant.
A contemporary English translation of the letter by P.H. ZOLLMAN is to be found in London, Royal Society, Early Letters L.4.72; 3 pages.
The letter was not read during a meeting of the Royal Society.
