Letter 0705

Humfrey Wanley to Hans Sloane – September 2, 1701


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Date: September 2, 1701
Author: Humfrey Wanley
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 226-227



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[fol. 226] September the 2d. 1701. Most Honor’d Sir, I fully intended to have done my self the Honor to wait on you to day, according to your kind Invitation, and to have brought the books along with me. But some Friends & Relations that I am now with, and have not seen in many years before, will needs keep me by force to dine with them to day, because their short stay will not allow us to see one another again. To night I must attend our Society, to Morrow noon, being Wednesday, I know you are engagd, but to morrow in the Evening I will wait on you at the Temple Coffee house, being Honor’d Sir Your most obliged & very humble servant Humfrey Wanley

Wanley was an Old English scholar and a librarian. He contributed four catalogues to Bernards Catalogue, a collection of manuscripts published in 1697. He was appointed assistant at the Bodleian Library in 1695 (Peter Heyworth, Wanley, Humfrey (16721726), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28664, accessed 19 June 2013]).




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