Letter 1722

Ralph Thoresby to Hans Sloane – January 20, 1710/11


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Date: January 20, 1710/11
Author: Ralph Thoresby
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: f. 233



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Thoresby discusses a rare flower called ‘Iris Lunaris’. He relays the bizarre tale of a group of people being assaulted by a barrage of lightning in Yorkshire. Ralph Thoresby wrote ‘The Topography of Leedes’ in 1715 and was interested in the topography of Yorkshire in general. He maintained a large collection of antiquities and other curiosities at his Musaeum Thoresbyanum in Leeds (P. E. Kell, “Thoresby, Ralph (1658-1725)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27334, accessed 25 May 2011]).




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