Letter 3792

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Servington Savery to Hans Sloane – July 25, 1730


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Date: July 25, 1730
Author: Servington Savery
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4051
Folio: f. 78


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[fol. 78] Exon July 25th 1730 Honrd Sr I was lately at my House in ye Country, where my Friend, who waited on yr Honour wth my first Letter coming to see me, told me he was about to imbark in a Ship bound for London. I desir’d him to wait on you with a second, supposing yor (or rather ye Secretary’s) Answer to ye first had miscarried. Ye Civility’s to him gave me incouragemt to give you ye sd second Trouble. At my return to Exon last night, I found my self oblig’d by a Letter under yr own Hand, which I esteem’d an unmerited Favour, & for wch I return my sincere Thanks. Since you are so kind as to desire to know which way the Transaction, when it is printed, may be sent to me, Please to order it to be deliver’d to Mr Richd Hett Bookseller at the Bible & Crown in ye Poultry wth Instructions to send it to Mr Aaron Tozer Bookseller in Exon the next Time he sends him Books. I beg pardon for giving you so much Trouble & remain Yr Honrs most obedient & most humble servant Servington Savery

Servington Savery (c.1670-c.1744) was a natural philosopher. He authored a paper on magnetism that was published in the Philosophical Transactions in 1730. Savery also designed a telescope, which George Graham used to measure the sun’s diameter. He spent his career in Shilston, near Modbury, Devon (Patricia Fara, ‘Savery, Servington (c.1670–c.1744)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/53780, accessed 18 Aug 2014]).



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