Letter 4015

Abraham Hill to Hans Sloane – August 26, 1697


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Date: August 26, 1697
Author: Abraham Hill
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: f. 345



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Hill informs Sloane the next Royal Society meeting is on September 2 ‘at the usual place’. 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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