Letter 3718

Rose Fuller to Hans Sloane – February 7, 1730


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Date: February 7, 1730
Author: Rose Fuller
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4050
Folio: ff. 272-273



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[fol. 272] Hon’red Sr After so many signal Instances of your kindness to me, I shou’d have thought myself highly ungratefull had I neglected to have given you my most sincere acknowledgements for the late good turn you have been so kind as to doe me in writing to my Father, that it would be proper for me to come home by Paris. He in a late very obliging Letter to me has not only given leave that I shou’d take that place in my way, but has also wth greater confidence shall I deserve left it to my discretion how lond I shou’d stay here which att present I am unable to determine, but will when I am upon going; make bold to ask you for ye Recommendations you so kindly promised me, and which will be of very great service to me there. I have recievd a Letter within these few days from Mrs Rose, by which I had ye pleasure of knowing that yourself and your Assembly on thursday were then well as I hope you all continue. I beg you wou’d make my compliments to them, and accept the duty of Hon’red Sr your most obedient Grandson And most obliged humble servant Rose Fuller Leyden Feb: 7. N:S: 1730. P:S: If there is any thing in these parts wherein I can be of service to you or any books or other matters to be had here that you have occasion for, you will doe me a very great pleasure in honouring me thereupon wth your commands, which shall be obliged wth ye greatest diligence.

Rose Fuller (1708-1777) was a politician, gun-founder and landowner. He was Sir Hans Sloane’s grandson. Fuller studied medicine at Cambridge from 1725 to 1728 and Leiden from 1729 to 1732 and went to Jamaica in 1733 to supervise the family estates. He served in the Jamaican assembly for some time before returning to England in 1755. Fuller was elected MP for Rye in 1768 (J. S. Hodgkinson, ‘Fuller family (per. c.1650–1803)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47494, accessed 14 Aug 2014]).




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