Letter 2143

Samuel Molyneux to Hans Sloane – March 12, 1716/17


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Date: March 12, 1716/17
Author: Samuel Molyneux
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: f. 274



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Molyneux asks that Sloane provide a relation of his, Mr Madden, with a letter of recommendation. Madden intends to practice medicine in England after a tour abroad. Samuel Molyneux (1689-1728) was an astronomer and politician. He studied optics and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1712 (A. M. Clerke, Molyneux, Samuel (16891728), rev. Anita McConnell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18925, accessed 4 July 2011]).




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