Letter 0829

Chamberlayne apologizes for his misunderstanding. He does not understand why Sloane’s schedule keeps him from returning Colonel Dudley’s letters. He has not received the Philosophical ‘Transactions from Mr Smith since July & August last inclusive’. John Chamberlayne was a translator and editor specializing in modern languages which he studied at the University of Leiden. He translated works on many topics, was a fellow of the Royal Society, and published three works in the Philsophical Transactions (Reavley Gair, “Chamberlayne, John (1668/9-1723)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5060, accessed 30 May 2011]).