Letter 2573

John Beaumont to Hans Sloane – April 27, 1722


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Date: April 27, 1722
Author: John Beaumont
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 234-235



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Beaumont received some notes on ‘Virgil’s fourth Eclogues’. He would like to borrow some of Sloane’s books. John Beaumont was a natural philosopher, geologist, translator, and writer who contributed specimens to the Royal Society’s collection (Scott Mandelbrote, Beaumont, John (c.16401731), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1876, accessed 1 Sept 2011]).




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