Letter 0716

Samuel Pepys to Hans Sloane – October 14, 1701


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Date: October 14, 1701
Author: Samuel Pepys
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: f. 256



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Pepys thanks Sloane for his visit and for the sermon. He has passed it onto the ladies, who enjoyed it. Pepys returns the sermon to Sloane. 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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