Letter 2765

Nathaniel Johnston to Hans Sloane – June 26, 1699


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Date: June 26, 1699
Author: Nathaniel Johnston
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 293-294



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Johnston requests Sloane return the manuscripts he sent him. Sloane is to leave the papers with Mr Brown. Johnston desires Sloane’s opinion of the papers. Johnston was a physician, antiquarian, and political theorist celebrated for his book ‘The Excellency of Monarchical Government’ (1686) (Mark Goldie, Johnston, Nathaniel (bap. 1629?, d. 1705), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14946, accessed 21 June 2013]).




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