Letter 1692

Hans Sloane to Adrian Beverland – August 24, 1710


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Date: August 24, 1710
Author: Hans Sloane
Recipient: Adrian Beverland

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: f. 168b



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[fol. 168b] Aug 24 1710 Sr I have just now rec’d yo’r letter and have since I saw you look’d over the books and designs left for me. They are not things in my way neither do I intend to buy any thing of what you mentioned in yo’r letter. When you please to send any person to whom you give an order to deliver them, they are ready. In the mean time I wish you Yo’r health & remain Yo’r most humble servt. Hans Sloane

This letter is a draft answer to Adrian Beverland’s note. See: Sloane MS 4042 fol. 168.

Sir Hans Sloane was a physician, scientist, and collector (Arthur MacGregor, Sloane, Sir Hans, baronet (16601753), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25730, accessed 2 June 2011]).




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