Letter 0748

Humfrey Wanley to Hans Sloane – May 1, 1702


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Date: May 1, 1702
Author: Humfrey Wanley
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: f. 335



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Wanley apologizes for breaking his promise, explaining that the Royal Society has given him a task and deadline that has keep him very busy. He details this schedule and writes that he will try to wait on him on Monday. 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]).




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