Letter 2767

William Musgrave Sr. to Hans Sloane – July 21, 1699


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Date: July 21, 1699
Author: William Musgrave Sr.
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 306-307



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Musgrave thanks Sloane for the Philosophical Transactions and inquires about a book called ‘K Alfred Curiosity!’ he had sent Sloane before. Dr Hicks is interested in the book. William Musgrave, Senior was a physician, antiquary, and Fellow of the Royal Society. He acted as second secretary to the Royal Society and edited several volumes of the Philosophical Transactions (Alick Cameron, Musgrave, William (16551721), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19668, accessed 8 July 2013]).




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