Letter 4439

Thomas Cooke to Hans Sloane – March 3, 1731[/32]


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Date: March 3, 1731[/32]
Author: Thomas Cooke
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: f. 78



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The bearer will wait on Sloane ‘According to [his] Commands’. Cooke assures Sloane that he will not let him down and thanks him for his support. Thomas Cooke (1703-1756), known as ‘Hesiod’ Cooke, was a popular translator of the Classics and writer (Sidney Lee, ‘Cooke, Thomas (1703–1756)’, rev. Arthur Sherbo, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6180, accessed 20 Aug 2014]).




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