Letter 0720

Charles Leigh to Hans Sloane – November 16, 1701


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Date: November 16, 1701
Author: Charles Leigh
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 265-266



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Leigh has a small, but choice, collection for Sloane. His brother may be contacted at Squire’s Coffeehouse. Leigh will publish his Appendix at Christmas and asks Sloane to aid in the recruitment of subscribers. Leigh was a physician and naturalist. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1685 (C. W. Sutton, Leigh, Charles (16621701?), rev. Michael Bevan, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16377, accessed 25 June 2013]).




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