Letter 4029

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Chandos to L. Cadogan – Dr:2:1727


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Date: Dr:2:1727
Author: Chandos
Recipient: L. Cadogan

Library: British Library
Manuscript: MS 4066
Folio: f. 28


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[Cannons?] Dr:2:1727: I must entreat your forgiveness for not attending you at yt. Royal Society in behalf of my good Friend Sr. Hans Sloane, but yt. Civilities I have receiv’d from ye ArchBishop would not sa..r Me to be against a gentleman who was so near a Relation of his grace’s & whom He was so desirous of using at yt. Head of ye. Society: however when I found your Lordship i [recved?] your self [i?] [nor?]. of Sr. Hans, I for=bors appearing, wch. I hope you will please to look on as an Instance of my Respect to you, & how desirous, I shall be on all occasions to approve my self to ye …… of my Powr. My Lord, Your Lordship’s Most Obedient & Most Humble Servt Chandos L. Cadogan

James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos apologies to Charles Cadogan for failing to meet him at the Royal Society on behalf of Sir Hans Sloane. James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos (1674-1744) was a politician, patron of the arts, and, like Sloane, on the Board of Governors of the Foundling Hospital. (Joan Johnson, Brydges, James, first duke of Chandos (16741744), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3806, accessed 30 Aug 2011]).



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