Letter 0675

Samuel Pepys to Hans Sloane – March 25, 1701


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Date: March 25, 1701
Author: Samuel Pepys
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: f. 149



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[fol. 149] Y B. March. 25. 1701. Deare Sr with a thousand thankes I returne your Books, they being both singularly entertayning in theyr kinde, & that of your Monteria Espangola more especially soe, in what I was in want to know, touching theyr Torriarring; wch I here finde all I need wish-for in; remayning for it most thankefully Your Debtor & most humble Servant Pepys

Pepys was a naval official who is best known as a result of the publication of his diaries, which recount the various political and social happenings of his day (C. S. Knighton, Pepys, Samuel (16331703), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21906, accessed 19 June 2013]).




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