Letter 1654

Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland to Hans Sloane – February 14, 1709


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Date: February 14, 1709
Author: Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: f. 98



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Her Majesty grants Sloane permission to become a member of the Academie des sciences in Paris. He is also allowed to correspond with Abbe Bignon ‘upon matters relating onely to Literature, and the Improvement of Arts and Sciences’. Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, was a prominent politician during the reigns of Queen Anne and George I. He studied at the University of Leiden and was interested in scholarship as well as being fluent in several foreign languages (Henry L. Snyder, Spencer, Charles, third earl of Sunderland (16751722), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26117, accessed 30 May 2011]).




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