Letter 1151

Edward Lhwyd to Hans Sloane – July 26, 1707


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Date: July 26, 1707
Author: Edward Lhwyd
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: f. 1



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Lhwyd thanks Sloane for sending a copy of his ‘History of Jamaica’. He discusses his work on ancient Scottish, ‘the best remains of the old Celtic and Spanish.’ He asks Sloane to help him find subscribers. Edward Lhwyd (1659/60-1709) was a naturalist and philologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1708. Sir Hans Sloane described him as the best naturalist in Europe (Brynley F. Roberts, Lhuyd , Edward (1659/60?1709), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16633, accessed 26 June 2013]).




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