Letter 0743

Abraham de la Pryme to Hans Sloane – April 13, 1702


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Date: April 13, 1702
Author: Abraham de la Pryme
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 324-325



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De la Pryme had written to Sloane the previous month, relaying an account of a man bitten by a mad dog. He does not know if Sloane received it. The Philosophical Transactions have not arrived. Nor has the book Sloane ordered for him, written by Count Marsigli. De la Pryme was an antiquary, who established extensive correspondence with other antiquaries such as Nathaniel Johnston, Thomas Gale, Ralph Thoresby, and Sloane. In 1702, on Sloanes proposal, he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society (C. E. A. Cheesman, Pryme, Abraham (16711704), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22852, accessed 25 June 2013]).




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