Letter 2201

Philip Lloyd to Hans Sloane – February 21, 1700


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Date: February 21, 1700
Author: Philip Lloyd
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: f. 137



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Lloyd is in Newgate Prison and begs Sloane to come to his aid. He writes it would be ‘the greatest Charity to assist innocence’. See Sloane MS 4038 ff. 303-304 for an explanation of Lloyd’s predicament. Philip Lloyd was a physician.




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