Letter 1702

Ralph Thoresby to Hans Sloane – October 14, 1710


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Date: October 14, 1710
Author: Ralph Thoresby
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: f. 192



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Thoresby thanks Sloane for sending the Philosophical Transactions, the ‘kind design about the Indian fruits’, and Mr Gordon’s geographical treatise. He received some curiosities from Craven. Thoresby was an antiquary and topographer. He expanded his fathers Musaeum Thoresbyanum impressively, and his collection brought him into discussion with many important political and scholarly figures (P. E. Kell, Thoresby, Ralph (16581725), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27334, accessed 3 June 2011]).




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