Letter 2538

David Wilkins to Hans Sloane – January 9, 1721/22


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Date: January 9, 1721/22
Author: David Wilkins
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 177-178



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[fol. 177] Jan.ry 9th. 1721/22 Honoured Sr. I have Design of printing Seldens Works, & being inform’d that You have some of His MSS & Emendations upon His printed Books, beg the favour of You, for the Publick use, to communicate to me whatever you may have of Selden’s. This great favour shall publickly be acknowledged & always. thankfully own’d by Honoured Sr Your most obed.t Humble Servt. Dd Wilkins.

Wilkins was a scholar, specializing in Coptic studies. His work on Seldon is characterized as “careless” while his other output mostly involved copying and compiling (Alastair Hamilton, Wilkins, David (16851745), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29417, accessed 31 Aug 2011]).




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