Letter 1811

Ralph Thoresby to Hans Sloane – January 4, 1709/10


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Date: January 4, 1709/10
Author: Ralph Thoresby
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: f. 84



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Thoresby requests some issues of the Philosophical Transactions. He wants to recruit subscribers for a new publication. Thoresby was an antiquary and topographer. He expanded his fathers Musaeum Thoresbyanum impressively, and his collection brought him into discussion with many important political and scholarly figures (P. E. Kell, Thoresby, Ralph (16581725), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27334, accessed 3 June 2011]).




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