Letter 1342

William Musgrave Sr. to Hans Sloane – June 26, 1708


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Date: June 26, 1708
Author: William Musgrave Sr.
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 163-164



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Musgrave thanks Sloane for sending the January issue of the Philosophical Transactions. He will pay the subscription fee – ‘wch I understand to be fiveteen shillings’ – and promises to take care of Sloane’s book. William Musgrave, Senior was a physician, antiquary, and Fellow of the Royal Society. He acted as second secretary to the Royal Society and edited several volumes of the Philosophical Transactions (Alick Cameron, Musgrave, William (16551721), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19668, accessed 8 July 2013]).




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