Letter 0809

John Chamberlayne to Hans Sloane – December 17, 1702


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Date: December 17, 1702
Author: John Chamberlayne
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: f. 51



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Chamberlayne has received a letter from Leeuwenhoek and is forwards the translation to Sloane. He asks again for Sloane to return Colonel Dudley’s letters if the Royal Society is not going to print them. John Chamberlayne was a translator and editor specializing in modern languages which he studied at the University of Leiden. He translated works on many topics, was a fellow of the Royal Society, and published three works in the Philsophical Transactions (Reavley Gair, “Chamberlayne, John (1668/9-1723)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5060, accessed 30 May 2011]).




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