Letter 1777

John Chamberlayne to Hans Sloane – July 25, 1711


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Date: July 25, 1711
Author: John Chamberlayne
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 329-330



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[fol. 329] Windsor-Castle Worthy Sr 25 July 1711 I beg the Favor to know whe- -ther you intend to Publish at length in any of your Trans: -actions, the Letters I communicated to you, sometime since from Mr King, Dr Arbuthnot, Dr Clark & to me, abt the Parity of Num: -bers in both sexes of Humane Creatures. If you dont, be pleas’d to send my sd Letters directed to be left for me at my House in Petty France, from whence they may be brought hither to Sr Your most Humble servt John Chamberlayne

John Chamberlayne was a translator and editor specializing in modern languages which he studied at the University of Leiden. He translated works on many topics, was a fellow of the Royal Society, and published three works in the Philsophical Transactions (Reavley Gair, “Chamberlayne, John (1668/9-1723)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5060, accessed 30 May 2011]).




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