Letter 3954

Nehemiah Grew to Hans Sloane – March 17, 1691/92


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Date: March 17, 1691/92
Author: Nehemiah Grew
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 113-114



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[fol. 113] Sir, If you intend to be at our Club this afternoone, pray, as you go will you call of me in Racquet Court a little above Fleet Bridge, beacuse I shall not be there. Y’r humble serv’t N. Grew 17th March 91/2

Grew was a botanist and physician who, in 1677, was appointed joint secretary of the Royal Society along with Robert Hooke (Michael Hunter, Grew, Nehemiah (bap. 1641, d. 1712), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11521, accessed 11 May 2011].




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