Letter 1826

John Stevens to Hans Sloane – January 16, 1711/12


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Date: January 16, 1711/12
Author: John Stevens
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: f. 23



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Stevens returns a book. He requests issues of the Philosophical Transactions and more books, particularly the work of ‘dr Bry of America’. John Stevens was a translator, antiquary, one time editor of the “British Mercury”, fluent Spanish speaker, and worked on putting many church-related texts into English (G. Martin Murphy, Stevens, John (c.16621726), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26423, accessed 13 June 2011]).




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