Letter 0833

Humfrey Wanley to Hans Sloane – March 10, 1702/03


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Date: March 10, 1702/03
Author: Humfrey Wanley
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 98-99



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[fol. 98] Sir 10. March. 1702/3 Mr Rowland Vaughn desiring the Societies Opinion whether a MS Book of Physic that he brought hither is fit to be Printed or not; They desire you to peruse it, and to give the Bearer an Answer, with convenient speed. Sir I am Your most obedient humble servant H. Wanley

Humfrey Wanley was an Old English scholar and librarian at Oxford. 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 4 July 2013]).




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