Letter 4295

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Michael Maittaire to Hans Sloane – July 25, 1731


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Date: July 25, 1731
Author: Michael Maittaire
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4051
Folio: ff. 282-283


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[fol. 282] 1731. July ye 25 Hond Sir, I am very much obliged to you for your accustomed communicative temper; which I wish all learned men were endow’d with. I don’t doubt but you’l secure the valuable MS. you mention for your Library, which ough to want nothing that is good and rare. The next opportunity I have of coming to town, I’l take the liberty of waiting on you, and viewing it. The printed books of the Oxford Marbles have indeed many faults, which could not escape the eyes of so sagacious a man as Dr Halley. I receiv’d by this Post a Proof of my edition of the Marbles, wch I am now sending back corrected. The numbers of the pages of that sheet are 637, 638, 639, 640. By which you may perceive, how many sheets we have finished. Our family here is in very much hurry. The Dutchess was yesterday morning taken ill of a sudden. Give me leave to subscribe myself, Worthy Sir, with much gratitude and respect, Your most obedient and most humble servt MMaittaire I must also acquaint you, that I am hard at work upon a tedious and long Index to my Annales Typographici. ‘Tis written fair as farr as the Letter G.

Michael Maittaire was a classical scholar, typographer, and schoolmaster. He was educated at Westminster School and and Christ Church, Oxford. Mattaire was under-master at Westminster School from 1695 to 1699 before founding his own private school at Mile End. He published editions of Latin and Greek classics throughout his scholarly career and had an extensive library (Margaret Clunies Ross, Amanda J. Collins, Maittaire, Michael (16681747), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17841, accessed 16 Aug 2013]).



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