Letter 2526

James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos to Hans Sloane – December 7, 1721


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Date: December 7, 1721
Author: James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: f. 156



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Brydges informs Sloane of an expedition to Africa. Mr Lynn, ‘Secretary to the African Company’, is the bearer. He is to answer Sloane’s questions and explain ‘the Nature of Drugs, plants, and spices’ they might find there. James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (1674-1744) was a politician, patron of the arts, and, like Sloane, on the Board of Governors of the Foundling Hospital. (Joan Johnson, Brydges, James, first duke of Chandos (16741744), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3806, accessed 30 Aug 2011]).




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