Letter 2756

Robert Southwell to Hans Sloane – March 9, 1699


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Date: March 9, 1699
Author: Robert Southwell
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 226-227



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Southwell asks about some books Sloane had purchased from Mr Smith, particularly ‘a Ms the Anales of Richardsons Southwell’. Sir Robert Southwell was a diplomat and government official. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1662, and was elected president from 1690 to 1695 (Toby Barnard, Southwell, Sir Robert (16351702), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26066, accessed 19 June 2013]).




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