Letter 1359

John Stevens to Hans Sloane – August 11, 1708


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Date: August 11, 1708
Author: John Stevens
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 192-193



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Stevens returns four books he had borrowed from Sloane. He is keeping one for a while longer. John Stevens was a translator, antiquary, one time editor of the “British Mercury”, fluent Spanish speaker, and worked on putting many church-related texts into English (G. Martin Murphy, Stevens, John (c.16621726), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26423, accessed 13 June 2011]).




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