Robert Walpole to Hans Sloane – June 9, 1729
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Date: June 9, 1729 Author: Robert Walpole Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4050 Folio: f. 133
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English
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British Library, London
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Patronage, Scholarship
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Books, Dictionary, Gresham College, Mathematics, Professorship, Recommendations
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June 9, 1729
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Chelsea
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[fol. 133] Chelsea the 9 June 1729. Sr I have heard a very character of Mr Ephraim Chambers & of his Dictionary of Arts & Sciences in 2 Vol. in folio which has mett with great applause in foreign Countrys as well as here. The Ingenious Author thereof has desired me to recommend him to you & to request that you would use your Interest with your friends in the City that he may succeed Mr Tooke as Mathematicall Professor of Gresham Coll. What service you please to do him upon this request of myne shall be regarded as a particular Act of frienshp. I am yr most obedient Humble servt RWalpole To Sir Hans Sloane Bart.
Sir Robert Walpole, later the 1st Earl of Orford, was a politician and the first prime minister of Great Britain (Stephen Taylor, Walpole, Robert, first earl of Orford (16761745), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28601, accessed 18 Aug 2011]).
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