Letter 0994

George Stepney to Hans Sloane – May 5, 1705


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Date: May 5, 1705
Author: George Stepney
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: f. 28



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Stepney encloses a treatise about the ear recommended by Dr Garelli, Physician to the Emperor. He held onto it these past two months because he had no means to convey it to England. Stepney was a renowned diplomat and expert on all things German. He became a member of the Royal Society in 1697 (Linda Frey and Marsha Frey, Stepney, George (16631707), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26404, accessed 25 June 2013]).




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