Letter 0973

Humfrey Wanley to Hans Sloane – January 8, 1704/05


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Date: January 8, 1704/05
Author: Humfrey Wanley
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 414-415



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Wanley sends a book, which cost him a great deal of money and pain. He is still willing to sell it for sixty guineas and include his observations. Also enclosed is a book on which Wanley had written notes when he was still an apprentice. 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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