Letter 2340

Chamberlayne informs Sloane that he received a letter from ‘the Swedish Minister’ and is not sure what to tell him. The man is writing a book and has the opportunity of ‘writing into Sweden’ so long as ‘the Czar dont give leave’ [?]. Chamberlayne asks Sloane what happened to copies of a book that were at the Royal Society. He congratulates Sloane on his daughter’s marriage. John Chamberlayne was a translator and editor specializing in modern languages which he studied at the University of Leiden. He translated works on many topics, was a fellow of the Royal Society, and published three works in the Philsophical Transactions (Reavley Gair, Chamberlayne, John (1668/91723), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5060, accessed 30 May 2011]).