Letter 1815

Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland to Hans Sloane – November 2, 1711


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Date: November 2, 1711
Author: Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: f. 5



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Spencer would like to know what happened with ‘the affair of the Books’, which came up at the last Council meeting. 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 (1675–1722)’, 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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