Letter 2746

Thomas Hyde to Hans Sloane – July 24, 1698


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Date: July 24, 1698
Author: Thomas Hyde
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 100-101



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Hyde reminds Sloane that he was supposed to have left some papers for him with Mr Chamberlayn at the Black Swan. The papers are related to an article in the Transactions on Persia and Zorostrianism. They can be left with either of the Bartlets if that is more convenient for Sloane. Hyde was the librarian of the Bodleian Library from 1665 to 1701. He possessed excellent linguistic skills in eastern languages, especially ancient Persian and Arabic (P. J. Marshall, Hyde, Thomas (16361703), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14336, accessed 19 June 2013]).




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