Letter 2808

Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu to Hans Sloane – September 7, 1701


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Date: September 7, 1701
Author: Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 228-229



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Montagu informs Sloane he read the account ‘of a Disease your Greate case could not cure’, which had been lent to him. Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montague (bap. 1638, d. 1709) was an English courtier, diplomat, and patron of the arts. He was elected to Parliament both before and after the Glorious Revolution (Edward Charles Metzger, Montagu, Ralph, first duke of Montagu (bap. 1638, d. 1709), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19030, accessed 25 June 2013]).




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