Letter 1451

William Wotton to Hans Sloane – April 23, 1709


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Date: April 23, 1709
Author: William Wotton
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 317-318



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Wotton discusses the effort he has put into his work on Robert Boyle. He requests that he be allowed to keep the books he borrowed for a while longer. Wotton was a child prodigy, having received his BA from Oxford at the age of nine. He mastered several languages and fields of inquiry and became a member of the Royal Society in 1687 as well as being ordained in 1689. He published many works on history, theology, culture, and politics and contributed to the Philosophical Transactions (David Stoker, Wotton, William (16661727), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2007 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30005, accessed 14 June 2011]).




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