Letter 1860

Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield to Hans Sloane – August 11, 1712


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Date: August 11, 1712
Author: Philip Stanhope, 2nd Earl of Chesterfield
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 74-75



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Stanhope was a courtier and politician. He retired to Bretby and spent part of his time in London (Stuart Handley, Stanhope, Philip, second earl of Chesterfield (16331714), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26253, accessed 14 June 2011]).




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