Letter 2171

Samuel Haliday to Hans Sloane – August 27, 1717


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Date: August 27, 1717
Author: Samuel Haliday
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: ff. 40-41



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Haliday informs Sloane that leaving Geneva did not delay the execution his task. Sloane’s nephew William is in good health. Haliday did everything he could to introduce him to ‘men of Sense, Vertue, and Honour’. Haliday was a minister who studied in Glasgow and Leiden before being ordained in Geneva, Switzerland (A. D. G. Steers, Haliday , Samuel (16851739), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11930, accessed 28 June 2011]).




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