Letter 0694

George Stepney to Hans Sloane – July 16, 1701


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Date: July 16, 1701
Author: George Stepney
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: f. 191



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The enclosed was recommended to Stepney. It is a book by Count Marsigli. Stepney sends it as a gift to the Royal Society. Marsigli was an ambassador that who brokered the ‘Treaty of Peace with ye Turks’ and is ‘very knowing in antiquities’. Stepney was a renowned diplomat and expert on all things German. He became a member of the Royal Society in 1697 (Linda Frey and Marsha Frey, Stepney, George (16631707), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26404, accessed 25 June 2013]).




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