Letter 0503

John Evelyn to Hans Sloane – May 13, 1698


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Date: May 13, 1698
Author: John Evelyn
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 69-70



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Evelyn asks Sloane to include the enclosed paper in the next Philosophical Transactions. John Evelyn was a diarist and writer who demonstrated a remarkable knowledge of horticulture. He was one of the founding members of the Royal Society (Douglas D. C. Chambers, Evelyn, John (16201706), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8996, accessed 18 June 2013]).




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