Letter 0666

Thomas Hyde to Hans Sloane – January 31, 1701


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Date: January 31, 1701
Author: Thomas Hyde
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 128-129



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Hyde returns the books Sloane donated to Oxford because they are duplicates of works already owned by the library. The package will arrive in London tomorrow. He acknowledges the receipt of 45 shillings. Hyde was the librarian of the Bodleian Library from 1665 to 1701. He possessed excellent linguistic skills in eastern languages, especially ancient Persian and Arabic (P. J. Marshall, Hyde, Thomas (16361703), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14336, accessed 19 June 2013]).




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