Letter 2294

Anne Cecil (nee Tufton), Countess of Salisbury to Hans Sloane – September 30, 1718


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Date: September 30, 1718
Author: Anne Cecil (nee Tufton), Countess of Salisbury
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: ff. 152-153



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Lady Anne wants to know if ‘the smallpox, or Measels, are very much in town now’. Lady Anne Cecil (nee Tufton), Countess of Salisbury, was the widow of James Cecil, 5th Earl of Salisbury.




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