Letter 2133

Myles Davies to Hans Sloane – December 15, 1716


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Date: December 15, 1716
Author: Myles Davies
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: f. 254



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Davies informs Sloane of a recently published essay. Davies was a bibliographer who published some works, most prominently Athenae Britannicae, which were ridiculed by his peers (R. Julian Roberts, Davies, Myles (b. 1662, d. in or after 1719), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7253, accessed 4 July 2011]).




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