Letter 1723

John Arbuthnot to Hans Sloane – January 21, 1710/11


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Date: January 21, 1710/11
Author: John Arbuthnot
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: f. 234



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Arbuthnot requests that Sloane meet with Lord Archibald to provide him with advice. He will take Sloane to see Archibald at ‘one a clock’. Lord Archibald Adams (bap. 1673-1754) served as Governor of Jamaica 1711-1716 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Archibald_Hamilton). Arbuthnot was a physician and satirist most famous for his John Bull pamphlets which led to the character becoming a national symbol (Angus Ross, Arbuthnot , John (bap. 1667, d. 1735), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/610, accessed 14 June 2011]).




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