George Hickes to Hans Sloane – May 9, 1699
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Date: May 9, 1699 Author: George Hickes Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037 Folio: f. 267
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English
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British Library, London
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Philosophical Transactions, Scholarship
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Books, Gratitude, Publishing
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May 9, 1699
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William Musgrave
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[fol. 267] May 9.99. hon. sir I give you very humble thanks for the generous offer of the favour, wch I could not have presumed to ask of you, and accordingly have sent you some of my proposealls wth a specimen of the book, wch is now carried on to the XXXIII, or XXXIV sheet. I hope er long to send that sheet, as another specimen to you, in wch will be printed k. Elfrells antiquity, and for that reason, I will order some supernumerary Copies to be printed off. As soon as I have made what use I shall think fit of dr. Musgraves letter, I will send that also to you with my opinion about printing it, or the substance of it, in the next transactions, and in the mean wth all respect and thankfulnesse to you for your great civilities I take leave, and subscribe, sir, your most obliged humble servant Geo. Hickes.
George Hickes (1642-1715) was a bishop of the nonjuring Church of England and Anglo-Saxon scholar (Theodor Harmsen, ‘Hickes, George (1642–1715)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13203, accessed 21 June 2011]).
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