Letter 3052

Bellers offers his condolences to Sloane, whose wife has died. He hopes that Sloane finds consolation in religion and grows closer to God. Bellers has treated prisoners and 58 of his ‘Poorer Neighbors’ to ‘Baked Beefe’. John Bellers was a political economist and cloth merchant. He married fellow Quaker Fettiplace Bellers and agitated on behalf of the Society of Friends. One of his projects to propose the founding of a technical college for industrial workers. His critique of value influenced both Robert Owen and Karl Marx. Bellers published works on the practice of physic, political economy, government, and social policy (Tim Hitchcock, Bellers, John (16541725), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2050, accessed 2 Aug 2013]).