Letter 2037

Ralph Thoresby to Hans Sloane – July 12, 1715


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Date: July 12, 1715
Author: Ralph Thoresby
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: f. 77



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Thoresby asks whether Sloane received his last letter, wherein he requested information on the number of births and burials in Hardwood Parish. He wants to purchase recent issues of the Philosophical Transactions ‘at the easyest rates’. Thoresby was an antiquary and topographer. He expanded his fathers Musaeum Thoresbyanum impressively, and his collection brought him into discussion with many important political and scholarly figures (P. E. Kell, Thoresby, Ralph (16581725), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27334, accessed 3 June 2011]).




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