Letter 2058

Daniel Pulteney to Hans Sloane – December 29, 1715


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Date: December 29, 1715
Author: Daniel Pulteney
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 120-121



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Pulteney encloses some observations for Sloane’s consideration. Daniel Pulteney was commissioner of customs and an MP “for the Cornish borough of Tregony.” He was also “appointed a lord of the Admiralty” (M. J. Rowe W. H. McBryde, Pulteney, Daniel (bap. 1682, d. 1731), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22886, accessed 27 June 2011]).




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