Letter 2470

John Percival, 1st Earl of Egmont to Hans Sloane – June 8, 1721


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Date: June 8, 1721
Author: John Percival, 1st Earl of Egmont
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 85-86



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[fol. 85] Charlton 8 June 1721 Sr My servant waits on you to beg the favour of lending me one of the Eagle stones that belongs to the Repository of Gresham Colledge. My wife who is with child places some confidence in it, and has engaged me to give you this trouble, which I hope youl be so good to excuse from Sr Yr. most obedt. servt Percival If youl give a line to Mr. Thomas he will comply with it

Percival was a politician, diarist, First Earl of Egmont, and and an instrumental figure in the founding of the North American colony of Georgia (Betty Wood, Perceval, John, first earl of Egmont (16831748), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21911, accessed 24 Aug 2011]).




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