Letter 3748

James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos to Hans Sloane – March 26, 1730


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Date: March 26, 1730
Author: James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4051
Folio: f. 7



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[fol. 7] March 26th 1730 Sr The Bearer hereof is Seeheuysen the Cabinet maker, whom I desire you will be so good to allow to see your Machine for holding Books, and I shall be much obliged to you if you’l give him leave to take a View of the inside work by which means he will do better able to make such another. Your favour herein shall be thankfully acknowledged and I remain Your most faithfull Humble servt Chandos Sir Hans Sloane

James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (1674-1744) was a politician, patron of the arts, and, like Sloane, on the Board of Governors of the Foundling Hospital. (Joan Johnson, Brydges, James, first duke of Chandos (16741744), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3806, accessed 30 Aug 2011]).




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