Humfrey Wanley to Hans Sloane – May 6, 1707
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Date: May 6, 1707 Author: Humfrey Wanley Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040 Folio: ff. 355-356
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English
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British Library, London
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Collections, Library, Scholarship, Trade or Commodities
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Books, History, Printing
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May 6, 1707
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Duke-street, York-buildings
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John Bagford
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Wanley has heard Sloane and other gentlemen speak of Bagford’s plan to write a history of printing. He has seen Bagford’s collection, which he describes. 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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