Letter 1140

William Musgrave Sr. to Hans Sloane – June 2, 1707


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Date: June 2, 1707
Author: William Musgrave Sr.
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 369-370



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Musgrave has received the money and will return the ‘Celius Auralianus’. He gives Sloane a list of books he would like to purchase. 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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