Letter 1986

John Chamberlayne to Hans Sloane – October 8, 1714


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Date: October 8, 1714
Author: John Chamberlayne
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: f. 302



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Chamberlayne suggests that Sloane write to Jablonski. He jokes that ‘Philosophers dont make the best courtiers especially in England.’ 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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