Letter 0618

Wanley attempted to meet with Sloane yesterday, but chased after him in vain, always just missing him. He did not get Sloane’s message from Mr Chamberlayne until it was too late. Wanley was an Old English scholar and a librarian. He contributed four catalogues to Bernards Catalogue, a collection of manuscripts published in 1697. He was appointed assistant at the Bodleian Library in 1695 (Peter Heyworth, Wanley, Humfrey (16721726), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28664, accessed 19 June 2013]).