Letter 2008

Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland to Hans Sloane – February 2, 1714/15


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Date: February 2, 1714/15
Author: Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: f. 17



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Spencer would like to meet Sloane near the customs house so as to have a look at the Marquis d’Almasses’ books. Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland, was a prominent politician during the reigns of Queen Anne and George I. He studied at the University of Leiden and was interested in scholarship as well as being fluent in several foreign languages (Henry L. Snyder, ‘Spencer, Charles, third earl of Sunderland (1675–1722)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26117, accessed 30 May 2011]).




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