Letter 0816

Charlett has set a young scholar to work on an Almanack. He received Sloane’s ‘Specimen of the Survey of the Danube’ from Mr Sherwin, but has yet to receive the box of books. Charlett was elected Master of University College at Oxford in 1692 and held that post until his death in 1722. Charlett used the mastership to gain influence, especially through persistent letter-writing to numerous correspondents, sharing the latest literary, political, and scholarly gossip (R. H. Darwall-Smith, Charlett, Arthur (16551722), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5158, accessed 1 June 2011]).