Letter 1838

Henrietta Howard to Hans Sloane – April 5, 1712


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Date: April 5, 1712
Author: Henrietta Howard
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: f. 40



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Howard asks Sloane to help her friend, Mr Grant, obtain a license to practice medicine. Henrietta Howard (nee Hobart) married “Lord Suffolk’s third son from his first marriage” Charles Howard in 1706 (Matthew Kilburn, Howard , Henrietta, countess of Suffolk (c.16881767), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13904, accessed 13 June 2011]).




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