Letter 2881

George Waldron to Hans Sloane – December 13, 1722


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Date: December 13, 1722
Author: George Waldron
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 316-317



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Waldron sends some curiosities, including an ornate box, which he is forced to sell to support his family. He hopes Sloane finds them interesting. George Waldron was an antiquary and British official on the Isle of Man. He published a study on the island and Manx culture in 1726 (Elizabeth Baigent, Waldron, George (1689/901726×31), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28450, accessed 18 July 2013]).




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