Letter 1833

William Nicolson to Hans Sloane – March 24, 1711/12


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Date: March 24, 1711/12
Author: William Nicolson
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 33-34



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Nicolson wants to meet Sloane on Wednesday afternoon and visit ‘the rest of the Society at Crane Court on Thursday’. Nicolson was an Irish clergyman and antiquary noted for his language skills. He became Bishop of Derry in 1718 (D. W. Hayton, Nicolson, William (16551727), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/20186, accessed 13 June 2011]).




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