Letter 2189

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Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet to Hans Sloane – October 27, 1719


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Date: October 27, 1719
Author: Thomas Tufton, 6th Earl of Thanet
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: ff. 261-262


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[fol. 261] Hothfield Oct. 27. 1719. Sir Hans I can’t omit returning you my thanks for the Acct you give me of the Child. who made my heart ake whissh he was here, so see wth he Suffer’d. I can’t but be Satisfy’d that he is gott safe to London, & now under your care ; Sr Boys found it so difficult to get him to take anything, that he try’d bathing of him, upon my mentioning it to him, who had formerly found so much benefit by it myself, the like cass, wch had very good effect, by his making wake up early in the night. This he foun’d to be very sati wth sitting quietly in the Bath all the time, but he was ready to fall into Fitts wth so the nurse used to give him anything, + I fear it may be of danger: our conssi to make any further Search on so young a child. I must also Thank you for the good Acct. you give me of my Daughter. Salisbury + her family. Who am your faithfull Frind Thomt

Thomas Tufton (1644-1729), 6th Earl of Thanet, was a nobleman and politician. He served as Captain of the Troop of Horse, Member of Parliament for Appelby from 1668 to 1679, and was eventually invested as a Privy Councillor in 1702. He was Lord-Lieutenant of Cumberland from 1712 to 1714 (G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, ‘The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant’, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume III, page 297).



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