Letter 0565

Edward Sherburne to Hans Sloane – March 9, 1699


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Date: March 9, 1699
Author: Edward Sherburne
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: f. 225



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Sherburne returns Sloane’s Diatribes of John Baptiste Billus with thanks and discusses how Sloane outbid him for it at auction. Sherburne was a translator, poet, and recusant known for his translations of classical Latin authors (Hugh de Quehen, Sherburne, Sir Edward (bap. 1616, d. 1702), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25359, accessed 21 June 2013]).




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