Letter 0999

William Musgrave Sr. to Hans Sloane – June 9, 1705


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Date: June 9, 1705
Author: William Musgrave Sr.
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 37-38



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Musgrave congratulates Sloane for his success with Mrs Hickes. He asks Sloane to procure a book from Dr Lister. Musgrave’s bookseller will wait on Sloane for it. William Musgrave, Senior was a physician, antiquary, and Fellow of the Royal Society. He acted as second secretary to the Royal Society and edited several volumes of the Philosophical Transactions (Alick Cameron, Musgrave, William (16551721), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19668, accessed 8 July 2013]).




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