Letter 3983

Robert Southwell to Hans Sloane – December 21, 1694


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Date: December 21, 1694
Author: Robert Southwell
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 199-200



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[fol. 199] London 21th Decembr 1694 Sr When I came home this day, I found the Effects of your favour in a compeat [sic] sett of Transactions, for which I must thank you at Leisure. In the meane time the book Binder being gone, and not knowing where he lives, I herewith send not onely the 4l:17s: which you have expended. But the nine halfe crownse which is for him. And soe with All due acknowledgmt. I am Sr Your most affect. and humble servant Robert Southwell

Sir Robert Southwell was a diplomat and government official. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1662, and was elected president from 1690 to 1695 (Toby Barnard, Southwell, Sir Robert (16351702), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26066, accessed 19 June 2013]).




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