Letter 0788

William Musgrave Sr. to Hans Sloane – April 18, 1706


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Date: April 18, 1706
Author: William Musgrave Sr.
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 146-147



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Musgrave asks Sloane to procure the best edition of ‘Colius Aurelianus’ he can find, so long as it is reasonably priced. William Musgrave, Senior was a physician, antiquary, and Fellow of the Royal Society. He acted as second secretary to the Royal Society and edited several volumes of the Philosophical Transactions (Alick Cameron, Musgrave, William (16551721), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19668, accessed 8 July 2013]).




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