Letter 3659

James Hodgson to Hans Sloane – September 10, 1729


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Date: September 10, 1729
Author: James Hodgson
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4050
Folio: f. 192



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Hodgson’s son is the bearer. He requests that Sloane provide a recommendation for the young man. James Hodgson (bap. 1678?, d. 1755) was a mathematician. He was an assistant to the astronomer John Flamsteed from 1695 and the cousin of the architect Sir Christopher Wren (Frances Willmoth, ‘Hodgson, James (bap. 1678?, d. 1755)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13437, accessed 15 Aug 2014]).




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