Letter 0474

William Molyneux to Hans Sloane – December 18, 1697


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Date: December 18, 1697
Author: William Molyneux
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 2-3



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Molyneux thanks Sloane for the eight editions of the Transactions he recently sent him. He laments that the small token of appreciation he sent Sloane in return is inadequate. Molyneux is delighted to see that some of his own ideas made it into Transactions #230. Molyneux was a philosopher and constitutional writer who became deeply involved in Irish affairs (James G. O’Hara, Molyneux, William (16561698), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18929, accessed 4 July 2011]).




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