Letter 0417

James Fraser to Hans Sloane – August 7, 1696


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Date: August 7, 1696
Author: James Fraser
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 250-251



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Fraser asks Sloane to lend him the book ‘Emperor of China’ (1681). James Fraser (1645-1731) was a book dealer with a formidable personal library (Brian Moffat, ‘Fraser, James (1645–1731)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/73233, accessed 11 May 2015]).




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