Letter 3654

George Henry Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull to Hans Sloane – September 3, 1729


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Date: September 3, 1729
Author: George Henry Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4050
Folio: f. 183



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Hay was unable to wait on Sloane as planned. He will have to come tomorrow at 5 o’clock in the afternoon. Hay is looking forward to viewing Sloane’s collection. George Henry Hay, 8th Earl of Kinnoull (1689-1758) was a politician and diplomat. From 1729 to 1737 he was the British Ambassador to Constantinople (Philip Carter, ‘Hay, George, eighth earl of Kinnoull (1689–1758)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12718, accessed 15 Aug 2014]).




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