Letter 1758

Arthur Charlett to Hans Sloane – June 30, 1711


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Date: June 30, 1711
Author: Arthur Charlett
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: f. 306



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Charlett describes the Duke of Ormund’s meeting with the Prince of Anhalt and the process of giving ‘public Honors from the University’. The Prince of Anhalt offers his thanks to Sloane. Charlett was elected Master of University College at Oxford in 1692 and held that post until his death in 1722. Charlett used the mastership to gain influence, especially through persistent letter-writing to numerous correspondents, sharing the latest literary, political, and scholarly gossip (R. H. Darwall-Smith, Charlett, Arthur (16551722), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5158, accessed 1 June 2011]).




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