Letter 0964

Henry Aldrich to Hans Sloane – December 5, 1704


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Date: December 5, 1704
Author: Henry Aldrich
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 399-400



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Aldrich apologizes for not responding sooner. He was in London, not Oxford. He thanks Sloane for the respect and kindness he always shows Oxford. Henry Aldrich was the Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, a center of Tory politics after the Glorious Revolution (1688). As a result Aldrich involved himself in controversial political debates (Stuart Handley, Aldrich, Henry (16481710), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/314, accessed 9 July 2013]).




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