Letter 1851

Louis Phelypeaux to Hans Sloane – July 13, 1712


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Date: July 13, 1712
Author: Louis Phelypeaux
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: f. 58



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Phelypeaux plans on sending some ‘physical curiosities’ to Sloane with Dr Chateauneuf, ‘comm’re dela marine’. He hopes Sloane will accept them. They were taken from a pirate ‘de DunKerque’. Louis Phelypeaux (1672-1725), Marquis de La Vrilliere, was a French politician. He served as Secretary of State for Protestant Affairs from 1700, acted as Head of the Department of the Maison du Roi, and worked in the Navy Ministry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Ph%C3%A9lypeaux,_marquis_de_La_Vrilliere).




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