John Somers, 1st Baron Somers to Hans Sloane – July 26, 1710
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Date: July 26, 1710 Author: John Somers, 1st Baron Somers Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042 Folio: f. 159
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English
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British Library, London
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Government, Royal Society
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Books
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July 26, 1710
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Father Grandi Dr Newton
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[fol. 159] 26. Jul. 1710 Sr This morning I receivd from Dr Newton, the Queens Envoy Extraordinary at Florence the Book which accompanies this Letter. It is intended by Father Grandi for the Royal Society, where he hopes it will be the more favourably receivd, as being written in defence of so justly famous a member of the Society. I am Sr your most obedient humble servt Somers
John Somers was a lawyer and politician was an important figure involved in the union of England and Scotland as well as the Hanoverian succession (Stuart Handley, “Somers, John, Baron Somers (1651-1716)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26002, accessed 2 June 2011]).
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