Letter 4288

Cecilia Garrard to Hans Sloane – July 6, 1731


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Date: July 6, 1731
Author: Cecilia Garrard
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4051
Folio: f. 269



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[fol. 269] Sr Tho I never have had opportunity of seeing your curious Collection of Raritys wch, I’m inform’d affords ye greatest variety of any in Europe, & as amongst ye most valuable you do not reject ye meanest Insect of the creation, I should esteem it a pleasure could I contribute any species that is wanting to compleat yr catalogue, yr wch: I herewith send was this moment brought out of my Garden & having never before seen any yt resembled it, hope they are not very common & shall be glad it proves acceptable to you, ’twas very difficult to catch wch: occasion’d a bruise upon its Head but tis a little revived since I’ve been writeing & will I hope continue till you receive it from Sr: Yr Servant Cecilia Garrard Greenstreet July 6th: 1731

Cecillia Garrard (nee Steed) was the wife of Sir Nicholas Garrard (1665-1727), 3rd Baronet of Langford. They married in 1671 (‘Hundred of South Greenhoe: Langford’, An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: volume 6 (1807), pp. 20-26. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78224).




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