Letter 1736

Christopher Wren to Hans Sloane – March 23, 1710/11


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Date: March 23, 1710/11
Author: Christopher Wren
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 262-263



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[fol. 263] Whitehall Mar: 23d 1710 Dr. Sloan By my father’s direction a Modell is made of the room for the Repository of the Royal-Society in Crane Court, which may give the Gentlemen a better idea, then the designe on paper. It will be very light, very commodious, and the cheapest building that can be contrived: I have sent the Joyner with it to you, that you may take the opportunity to show at the Councill; it will be necessary not to loose the season of the year in the execution. I shall indeavour to attend the next meeting, and am yr most obed.t hum.e servt. Chr: Wren

Sir Christopher Wren was an architect, mathematician, astronomer, and member of the Royal Society (Kerry Downes, “Wren, Sir Christopher (1632-1723)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30019, accessed 3 June 2011]).




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