Abraham Hill to Hans Sloane – May 30, 1692
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Date: May 30, 1692 Author: Abraham Hill Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036 Folio: ff. 124-125
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British Library, London
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Levant/Turkey Company, Near East, Recommendation
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May 30, 1692
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[f. 124] Sr I have Spoke with Sr Gabriel Roberts dep’ty Gov’r of the Turkey Comp’y who tells me the Company have never concerned themselves in having a Physician at Aleppo & that it is not to be expected that they will medle with the choyce or recommendation of any one, so your friend can only have the recomendation of particular friends & the hopes that his own merit will advantage him I am Yo’r humble serv’t A Hill 30. May. 92
Abraham Hill (bap. 1635 d.1722) was Secretary to the Royal Society. He managed its correspondence (Lotte Mulligan, ‘Hill, Abraham (bap. 1635, d. 1722)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13265, accessed 9 July 2015]).
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