Letter 1746

John Hargreaves to Hans Sloane – May 1, 1711


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Date: May 1, 1711
Author: John Hargreaves
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 281-282



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Hargreaves sends the diamonds Sloane had requested, which ‘were took out of the earth without being Ground or polished’. John Hargreaves was a Quaker of Colne, Lincolnshire.




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