Letter 0793

Hutchison has heard that Sloane read his papers. He has been encouraged to publish them and has attempted to do so. Hutchison writes that perhaps it would be better to do so after the Scotch Union is completed. He asks for Sloane’s help with the work’s publication. Francis Hutchinson was the Perpetual Curate of St James’s Church in Bury St Edmunds. In 1720 he became the Bishop of Down and Connor in Ireland. He was a historian and wrote ‘Defence of the Antient Historians’, published in 1734 (Toby Barnard, “Hutchinson, Francis (1660-1739):, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14282, accessed 13 June 2011]).