Letter 2623

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Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle to Hans Sloane – n.d. [1724?]


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Date: n.d. [1724?]
Author: Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4076
Folio: f. 151


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(f. 151) Claremont Sunday Morning Sir The enclosed from Dr Rupel will shew you how extreamly ill poor Miss Naylor is. I have long apprehended her to be in great danger but now there ia a necessity to send down to Her the best advice that can be gott. You have constantly had the care of Her, & Consequently know Her Constitution & Distemper better than any Body & therefore I must begg of you to go down to her, I should be glad if Dr Pekitt could go with you, the Roads are now good, & the Days so long, that you need not be long from London. You may easily imagine (f. 151v) the Concern we have for Her & therefore I hope you will not refuse My Request. Burnett has orders to provide a Coach & Every thing necessary for your Journey. I am SR your very humble servt Thomas Newcastle

Thomas Pelham-Holles, Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne and 1st Duke of Newcastle under Lyme, served Sir Robert Walpole for over 20 years and became Prime Minister in the 1750s (Reed Browning, Holles, Thomas Pelham-, duke of Newcastle upon Tyne and first duke of Newcastle under Lyme (16931768), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2011 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/21801, accessed 17 July 2013]).



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