Letter 1132

Humfrey Wanley to Hans Sloane – May 6, 1707


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Date: May 6, 1707
Author: Humfrey Wanley
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 355-356



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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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