Letter 0717

Hudson returns Sloane’s catalogue, apologizing for his tardiness. He discusses the books in the catalogue and asks, on behalf of the Vice-Chancellor, for Sloane to lend the College books. He asks for Pliny’s Epistles, which were ‘not in the Norfolk-Library’. John Hudson (1662-1719) was elected librarian of the Bodleian Library in 1701. He corresponded with numerous scholars and librarians, both in England and abroad (Theodor Harmsen, Hudson, John (16621719), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2013 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14034, accessed 27 June 2013]).