Letter 1146

John Arbuthnot to Hans Sloane – July 4, 1707


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Date: July 4, 1707
Author: John Arbuthnot
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: f. 377



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Arbuthnot thanks Sloane for the book, which he will read and return. Arbuthnot was a physician and satirist most famous for his John Bull pamphlets which led to the character becoming a national symbol (Angus Ross, ‘Arbuthnot , John (bap. 1667, d. 1735)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/610, accessed 14 June 2011]).




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