Letter 3015

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William Reading to Hans Sloane – March 12, 1723/24


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Date: March 12, 1723/24
Author: William Reading
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: f. 148


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[fol. 148] Sion College London March 12 1723/4 Honoured Sir, A Specimen of the Catalogue of Sion Library has, I hope, been communicated to you by Mr Becket Surgeon. The Book is now printed, and I am drawing up a List of Subscribers, wch I intend to put into the Printers hands next Week. I presume to consult you Sir, if you have room at the College of Physicians, or Royal Society to take a Copy. Last time I called, Sir, at your House, you were sick in Bed. I hope you have now better health. I am Sir y’r most humble serv’t Wm Reading Library Keeper

William Reading was appointed librarian of Sion College, London, in 1708 with the support of Bishop Compton and oversaw the expansion of its collection. He held lectureships at various London churches. Reading reorganized the collection, wrote a celebrated catalogue of its holdings (1724), and published works of ecclesiastical history as well as his own sermons (R. Julian Roberts, Reading, William (16741744), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23237, accessed 29 July 2013]).



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