Letter 3758

Eustache Guillemeau to Hans Sloane – May 5, 1730


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Date: May 5, 1730
Author: Eustache Guillemeau
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4051
Folio: f. 24



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Guillemeau discusses a text he is working on related to the translation of travel writers’ accounts of the territories they visit. Eustache Guillemeau was a Roman Catholic priest and Barnabite. He published ‘An Explanation of the New Chronological Table of the Chinese History’ with Jean-François Foucquet and Sir Thomas Dereham.




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