Letter 1155

Thomas Molyneux to Hans Sloane – August 9, 1707


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Date: August 9, 1707
Author: Thomas Molyneux
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 10-11



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Molyneux thanks Sloane for recommending Sir Andrew Fontaine, an expert in medals and coins. They very quickly became friends. Molyneux is very happy to be working under Lord Pembroke. He asks for a copy of Sloane’s book. Thomas Molyneux was a physician and natural philosopher who corresponded with Sloane, Edward Lhuyd, and John Locke (J. B. Lyons, Molyneux, Sir Thomas, first baronet (16611733), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18927, accessed 4 July 2011]).




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