Letter 1237

Ralph Thoresby to Hans Sloane – May 30, 1708


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Date: May 30, 1708
Author: Ralph Thoresby
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: f. 133



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Thoresby hopes the Roman coins arrived safely. He informs Sloane that Dr Hargrave will be sending a sample of salt or vitriol. Thoresby was an antiquary and topographer. He expanded his fathers Musaeum Thoresbyanum impressively, and his collection brought him into discussion with many important political and scholarly figures (P. E. Kell, Thoresby, Ralph (16581725), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27334, accessed 27 June 2013]).




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