Letter 1822

Andrew Fountaine to Hans Sloane – December 16, 1711


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Date: December 16, 1711
Author: Andrew Fountaine
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 14-15



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Lord Pembroke has written two letter to Sloane. Fountaine informs him that Pembroke wants to meet ‘on Tuesday next a little after 5 in the afternoon’. Sir Andrew Fountaine was an art collector who undertook grand tours of Europe to view and purchase the art of the Continent (Andrew W. Moore, Fountaine, Sir Andrew (16761753), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/9994, accessed 8 July 2013]).




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