Letter 0739

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Humfrey Wanley to Hans Sloane – March 9, 1701/02


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Date: March 9, 1701/02
Author: Humfrey Wanley
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: f. 314


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[fol. 314] 9. March. 1701/2. Honor’d Sir, The hurry I’me in, which yet is necessary, will not permit me to wait on you, these 2 days yet: And I send this, to prevent your thinking that I have not that great Love, that sincere Value, Respect & Honor for you, that I have always profess’d, and that your great Favors have made a Duty incumbent upon me. I am chosen secretary to the society, who were unanimous in the Resolution, and ‘taws at a very full meeting. They have augmented my salary, and my Business too. What I’me now bussied in, is, to give notice to all our Correspondents throughout England, of this Alteration, that they may direct their Letters to me for the future. And since this can’t be avoided, I humbly intreat you to have yet a little more patience with Honor’s Sir, You most faithful & humbley devoted servant H 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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