Letter 2534

Hearne thanks Sloane for answering his letter regarding Cowper’s manuscripts. He asks that Sloane ‘send it […] for a few Days’. Hearne wants to visit London to view its antiquities and commends himself and Sloane for having collections ‘of great service to Learning’. Thomas Hearne (bap. 1678, d. 1735) was an antiquary and diarist. He began working at the Bodleian Library in 1701. A nonjuror, his refusal to take an oath of allegiance to King George I led to his dismissal from the Bodleian in 1716. Hearne published the works of several English chroniclers (Theodor Harmsen, Hearne, Thomas (bap. 1678, d. 1735), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12827, accessed 2 June 2011]).