Letter 2528

Richard Blackmore to Hans Sloane – December 22, 1721


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Date: December 22, 1721
Author: Richard Blackmore
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 158-159



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Blackmore asks Sloane to speak with Walpole about the ‘Mall Tax Bill’ and his nephew, Power, possibly being appointed a ‘Clerk of the Treasury’. Sir Richard Blackmore was a physician and writer, publishing works on poetry, history, theology, and medicine (Flavio Gregori, Blackmore, Sir Richard (16541729), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2528, accessed 30 Aug 2011]).




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