Letter 2039

Thomas Archer to Hans Sloane – July 15, 1715


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Date: July 15, 1715
Author: Thomas Archer
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 80-81



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Archer requests a meeting at the Grecian Coffeehouse or Sloane’s home. He wants to know what Sloane plans on doing with his Chelsea property. Archer was an architect who was commissioned to design fifty new churches in London, Westminster, and the surrounding area in 1711. He is considered a master of English baroque architecture (Andor Gomme, Archer, Thomas (1668/91743), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/628, accessed 25 June 2011]).




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