Letter 2565

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David Wilkins to Hans Sloane – March 27, 1722


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Date: March 27, 1722
Author: David Wilkins
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: f. 221


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[fol. 221] Lambeth House March. 27th. 1722 Honoured Sr Although the hints wch you were pleased to send to me by the Favour of your Letter, relating to Selden, were sometime before comunicated to me by Those Booksellers yt had bought Mr. Chiswells Book & Copies, yet I am nevertheless very much obliged to you for Your kindly intended Assistance & Advice in the Prosecution of my Design. The three Gentlemen yt will have the Honour of presenting this Letter to you come from Berlin & Frankfurt & having a great Desire to see your Incomparably great Treasure of Rarities & Antiquities, I come an humble supplicant to you, in their Name: yt you would condescend to appoint ’em your Day & Hour of Leisure, when They might be favoured wth ye Surprizing Sight of your Cabinet. Which undeserved Favour they’le celebrate wherever They go, & in particular shall esteem it as the Highest Mark of Friendship, wth wch you are so generously pleased to embrace Honoured Sr Your most obedient Humble servt. Dd Wilkins.

Wilkins was a scholar, specializing in Coptic studies. His work on Seldon was characterized as “careless” while his other output mostly involved copying and compiling (Alastair Hamilton, “Wilkins, David (1685-1745)”, 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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