Letter 0920

Grew writes that Sloane has kept Mr Thoresby’s letter for over half a year now, even after many promises to return it. Sloane has also failed to inform Grew of his intentions for the letter. Grew does not know what to tell Thoresby. As such, Grew tells Sloane that he expects it to be returned to the bearer of this letter. Grew was a botanist and physician who, in 1677, was appointed joint secretary of the Royal Society along with Robert Hooke (Michael Hunter, Grew, Nehemiah (bap. 1641, d. 1712), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11521, accessed 11 May 2011]).