Letter 0107

Samuel Pepys to Hans Sloane – June 24, 1702


Item info

Date: June 24, 1702
Author: Samuel Pepys
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 357-358



Original Page



Transcription

Pepys returns one of Sloane’s books. He praises the work and its author. Pepys was a naval official who is best known as a result of the publication of his diaries, which recount the various political and social happenings of his day (C. S. Knighton, Pepys, Samuel (16331703), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21906, accessed 19 June 2013]).




Patient Details