Letter 1698

Christopher Wren to Hans Sloane – September 21, 1710


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Date: September 21, 1710
Author: Christopher Wren
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 179-180



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Wren is looking to hire several workmen to make the ‘necessary repairs of the House’. He assures Sloane the work will be undertaken promptly. Wren will be in London ‘next week’ to answer Sloane’s questions. Sir Christopher Wren was an architect, mathematician, astronomer, and member of the Royal Society (Kerry Downes, Wren, Sir Christopher (16321723), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30019, accessed 3 June 2011]).




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