Letter 2709

Robert Southwell to Hans Sloane – December 15, 1699


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Date: December 15, 1699
Author: Robert Southwell
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 359-360



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[fol. 359] Sr, I was last night told by my Lrd Weymouth that my Lrd Privy Seale and he had agreed, not only to dine with us on Wednesday, but to go afterwards to our Meeting at Gresham Colledge. I will make bold to give you this Inclination, because I know you will get Something then ready that maybe worth the Time that their Lrdpps intend to spent with us. I am Sr Your most affectionate friend & servant R Southwell

Sir Robert Southwell was a diplomat and government official. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1662, and was elected president from 1690 to 1695 (Toby Barnard, Southwell, Sir Robert (16351702), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26066, accessed 19 June 2013]).




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