Letter 4247

Thomas Cooke to Hans Sloane – Dec. 16 1734


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Date: Dec. 16 1734
Author: Thomas Cooke
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4053
Folio: f. 352



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Received of Sr Has Sloane Bart the sum of Half a Guinea being the whole payment for a set of my Edition of Terence in three Volumes which shall be delivered as printed by me Thomas Cooke

Cooke writes a receipt for Sloane’s subscription to his volumes of Terence.

Thomas Cooke (1703-1756), known as ‘Hesiod’ Cooke, was a popular translator of the Classics and writer (Sidney Lee, ‘Cooke, Thomas (1703–1756)’, rev. Arthur Sherbo, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6180, accessed 20 Aug 2014]).




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