Letter 4022

Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort to Hans Sloane – December 1, 1697


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Date: December 1, 1697
Author: Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 377-378



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Somerset received Sloane’s letters and thanks him for asking about his health. Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort (1629-1700) was a nobleman and politician (Molly McClain, ‘Somerset, Henry, first duke of Beaufort (1629–1700)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2013 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26009, accessed 14 May 2015]).




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