Letter 0493

Molyneux thanks Sloane for lending him a text which he apologizes for keeping so long. He writes that he believes ‘Mnsr Le Montre will certaintly be found in the right’, suggesting Molyneux was researching an intellectual dispute. He also thanks Sloane for putting his ‘trifles’ into the Transactions, saying it is a great honour, and that he is even more flattered when Sloane himself refers to them. Molyneux was a philosopher and constitutional writer who became deeply involved in Irish affairs (James G. O’Hara, Molyneux, William (16561698), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18929, accessed 4 July 2011]).