Letter 1670

William Musgrave Sr. to Hans Sloane – April 23, 1710


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Date: April 23, 1710
Author: William Musgrave Sr.
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 126-127



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[fol. 126] Dear Sr I give you many thanks for the use of your Calius Aurelianus, which I have sent to London by my nephew Gatehall of the six Clercks office, with orders That He send it to your House. If He neglects so to doe you will order the servant to call on Him for it. I am with great respect (Dear Sr.) Your much obliged humble Servt Wm Musgrave Exon April 23. 1710.

William Musgrave, Senior was a physician, antiquary, and Fellow of the Royal Society. He acted as second secretary to the Royal Society and edited several volumes of the Philosophical Transactions (Alick Cameron, Musgrave, William (16551721), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19668, accessed 8 July 2013]).




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