Letter 2293

Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough to Hans Sloane – September 28, 1718


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Date: September 28, 1718
Author: Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: ff. 150-151



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Sarah confesses that Sloane was right in predicting what would happen to the ‘Dutches of Newcastle’. Sarah Churchill (nee Jenyns) married John Churchill in during the winter of 16778. She was a close friend and confidante of Queen Anne. Her influence waned with the accession of George I to the throne (James Falkner, Churchill , Sarah, duchess of Marlborough (16601744), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5405, accessed 12 Aug 2011]).




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