Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset to Hans Sloane – December 19, 1731
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Date: December 19, 1731 Author: Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052 Folio: f. 55
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British Library, London
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Social, Trade or Commodities
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Employment, Gardeners, Venison
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December 19, 1731
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Pettworth
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Mr Miller
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[fol. 55] Pettworth Decembr the 19th 1731 Sr Not having heard from you since I saw you last in the month of July when I desired you to speak to Mr. Miller or to others of your acquaintance to gett mee a good, Honest sober and ingenious Gardener skillfull in the most usefull Branches of a Kitchen Garden & of a Pleasure Garden. I ffear you have forgott the promise you then was pleased to make mee. therefore I doe now Remind you of it, & at the same time. I send you some of my winter venison as a Prooffe that I have not fogott you. I am your most humble servant somerset When you doe hear of a Right good Gardener pray send him to Bridgewater to northumberland House.
Charles Seymour, 6th Duke of Somerset (1662-1748) was a prominent politician and courtier known as the ‘Proud Duke’ (R. O. Bucholz, “Seymour, Charles, sixth duke of Somerset (1662-1748)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25158, accessed 5 July 2011]).
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