Letter 0464

Richard Waller to Hans Sloane – October 4, 1697


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Date: October 4, 1697
Author: Richard Waller
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 360-361



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Waller apologizes for not visiting Sloane while he was in London. He was at the Temple Coffeehouse, but did not meet Sloane there. He will send a copy of Dr Connor’s treatise, which is to be Philosophical Transactions. 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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