Letter 0925

Ralph Thoresby to Hans Sloane – June 7, 1704


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Date: June 7, 1704
Author: Ralph Thoresby
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: f. 306



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Thoresby thanks Sloane for informing him that a coin of his is mentioned in a new book. He asks Sloane to procure a copy for him and collect payment for it from Mr Arlington. Thoresby requests issues of the Philosophical Transactions. Thoresby was an antiquary and topographer. He expanded his fathers Musaeum Thoresbyanum impressively, and his collection brought him into discussion with many important political and scholarly figures (P. E. Kell, Thoresby, Ralph (16581725), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27334, accessed 27 June 2013]).




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