Letter 2971

Richard Bradley to Hans Sloane – October 17, 1723


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Date: October 17, 1723
Author: Richard Bradley
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 73-74



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Bradley requests that Sloane provide him with a recommendation. He is applying for the ‘Professorship of Botany’ at Oxford, which would include responsibilities at the university’s ‘Physick Garden’. Richard Bradley (1688?-1732) was a scientific author, Fellow of the Royal Society, and Professor of Botany at Cambridge (Frank N. Egerton, “Bradley, Richard (1688?-1732)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3189, accessed 10 Nov 2012]).




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