Samuel Molyneux to Hans Sloane – March 12, 1716/17
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Date: March 12, 1716/17 Author: Samuel Molyneux Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044 Folio: f. 274
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English
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British Library, London
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Patronage, Travel
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Medical Education, Recommendations
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March 12, 1716/17
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Mr Madden
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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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