Letter 1796

Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland to Hans Sloane – October 16, 1711


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Date: October 16, 1711
Author: Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 357-358



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Spencer gives Sloane permission to rule as he wanted to at the ‘Councill to day’ regarding the collection of books. Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, was a prominent politician during the reigns of Queen Anne and George I. He studied at the University of Leiden and was interested in scholarship as well as being fluent in several foreign languages (Henry L. Snyder, Spencer, Charles, third earl of Sunderland (16751722), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26117, accessed 30 May 2011]).




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