Letter 2089

Humfrey Wanley to Hans Sloane – June 23, 1716


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Date: June 23, 1716
Author: Humfrey Wanley
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 178-179



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Lord Harley has instructed Wanley to thank Sloane for the manuscripts he sent. Humfrey Wanley was an Old English scholar and librarian at Oxford. He was appointed assistant at the Bodleian Library in 1695 (Peter Heyworth, Wanley, Humfrey (16721726), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28664, accessed 4 July 2013]).




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