Letter 0434

Richard Waller to Hans Sloane – January 12, 1696/7


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Date: January 12, 1696/7
Author: Richard Waller
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 282-283



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Waller informs Sloane that he has finished translating into English one of Sloane’s papers. He asks for Sloane to read over his work and supply the words that Waller decipher. Richard Waller was a natural philosopher and translator who worked as the Royal Society’s secretary. He also served on its council and edited the Philosophical Transactions (Lotte Mulligan, Waller, Richard (c.16601715), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/48707, accessed 19 June 2013]).




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