Letter 1889

George Ashe to Hans Sloane – March 9, 1712/13


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Date: March 9, 1712/13
Author: George Ashe
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: f. 129



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Ashe asks Sloane to transcribe Mr Molyneaux’s poem, which was written after he viewed Sloane’s collection. Ashe would like a copy of it. Ashe was the Bishop of Derry for the Church of Ireland and a scholar (Hermann J. Real, Ashe, St George (16581718), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/750, accessed 16 June 2011]).




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