Letter 4240

Henry Newman to Hans Sloane – 5 Dec.r 1734


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Date: 5 Dec.r 1734
Author: Henry Newman
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4053
Folio: f. 336



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Bartlet’s Buildings 5. Dec.r 1734 Sir W. Copping having inform’d the Society of your having recommended this Memorial to the Countess of Harold and Her Ladyships favourable answer to it, I am order’d to desire you would accept the thanks of the Society for your good offices on this occasion, and take leave at the same time to assure you that I am Sir y.r most Obedient humble serv.t Henry Newman Sir Hans Sloane Bar.t

Henry Newman (1670-1743) was Secretary for The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. He graduated BA and MA from Harvard, worked as a librarian, and entered the commercial fishing industry in Newfoundland until 1703 when he settled in England to work for the Society (Leonard W. Cowie, ‘Newman, Henry (1670–1743)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/39693, accessed 14 Aug 2015]).




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