Letter 1703

Fettiplace Bellers to Hans Sloane – October 24, 1710


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Date: October 24, 1710
Author: Fettiplace Bellers
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 195-196



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[fol. 196] Hond Doctor I Am Asham’d that I did not returne this book you favourd me with, sooner. I went out of Town so soon after I had it that I Could not Read it there. I hope you will Excuse this neglect Sr your Oblig’d Friend Fettiplace Beller Cown Allins Octobr ye 24 1710 If you get any of Langius’s Books I hope you w’ll do me the favour of keeping one for me.

Bellers, whose parents were Quakers, was a philosophical writer and playwright (Arthur Sherbo, Bellers, Fettiplace (b. 1687, d. in or before 1750), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2049, accessed 3 June 2011]).




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