Letter 3785

Batty Langley to Hans Sloane – July 7, 1730


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Date: July 7, 1730
Author: Batty Langley
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4051
Folio: ff. 66-67



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[fol. 67] Honed. Sr It will be Impossible that I can have success in my survey of the English Gardens, unless I am first honed. with your subscription. You being not only President of the most Learned Body of artists, But known to be the best Judge of every art that deserves Encouragement I am yr Most obliged Humble sert. B. Langley Tuesday 7 July 1730

Batty Langley (bap. 1696, d. 1751) wrote works on gardening, garden design, and ancient and modern architecture (Eileen Harris, Langley, Batty (bap. 1696, d. 1751), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16022, accessed 20 Aug 2013]).




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