Letter 4066

Thomas Cooke to Hans Sloane – November 13 1733


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Date: November 13 1733
Author: Thomas Cooke
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4053
Folio: f. 79



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Cooke writes to Sloane about a good friend who is publishing an useful work (a survey of London and Westminster), who is in need of a place to stay and wonders if Sloane will take them in anytime. Thomas Cooke (1703-1756), known as ‘Hesiod’ Cooke, was a popular translator of the Classics and writer (Sidney Lee, ‘Cooke, Thomas (1703–1756)’, rev. Arthur Sherbo, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6180, accessed 20 Aug 2014]).




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