Margaret Ray to Hans Sloane – December 24, 1706
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Date: December 24, 1706 Author: Margaret Ray Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040 Folio: ff. 279-280
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British Library, London
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Collections, Social, Trade or Commodities
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December 24, 1706
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Black Notley
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Sir Thomas Samuel Smith Benjamin Walford
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[fol. 279] Sr I would not have you think me ungratefull in not returning you my most hearty thanks for your last kind letter as likewise for the pains you have taken for me with Sr Tho: Willoughby but especially for your own very kind intended guift therein mentioned me: The only hindrance hath been because I could not happen of any person in these parts whose stay in London would permit them to wait upon you considering that your business occasion your being often absent from your house: I intreat the favour of you to leave the money at your conveniance: with mr sam’l smith and Mr Ben Walford or either of them to whom I have given advice to receive the money and give you a discharge: As to my husbands letter I intend very shortly to have them overlooke and send them: I cannot close this without repeating my humble thanks for all your favours and presenting my daughters humble services which likewise accept from Sr Your most obliged humble servant Margaret Ray Black Notley Dec 24th 1706
Margaret Ray (nee Oakley) was the wife of John Ray, the naturalist and theologian (Scott Mandelbrote, Ray , John (16271705), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23203, accessed 21 May 2011]).
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