Letter 0657

Charlett thanks Sloane for the medical advice he gave to a friend. He tells Sloane that he has not been able to inform the professors of the elections at Gresham and ‘St Andrews Festival’. Charlett offers his service to Mr Bromfil, who can find out when the ‘university Terme ends’ by looking at an ‘Oxford Almanack’. Charlett was elected Master of University College at Oxford in 1692 and held that post until his death in 1722. Charlett used the mastership to gain influence, especially through persistent letter-writing to numerous correspondents, sharing the latest literary, political, and scholarly gossip (R. H. Darwall-Smith, Charlett, Arthur (16551722), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5158, accessed 18 June 2013]).