Letter 0566

Pepys heard from Henry Hunt that his attendance at the Royal Society meeting tomorrow is desired regarding the East India Company’s plants. He cannot make it, but hopes to provide Sloane with the information he needs in lieu of his appearance. He writes that Sloane can stop by to pick up what he requires for the meeting. Pepys was a naval official who is best known as a result of the publication of his diaries, which recount the various political and social happenings of his day (C. S. Knighton, Pepys, Samuel (16331703), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21906, accessed 19 June 2013]).