Letter 4438

Cooke thanks Sloane for subscribing to his ‘Collection of Essays’. He researched ‘the Rules of the King’s Bench’ and hopes Sloane will accept his ‘Letters of Atticus’. The letters are not to be included in the collection of essays. Cooke is working on a translation of Hesiod and a paper for ‘the British Journal, or the Traveller’. He thinks he can write several papers based on his perusal of Dr Woodward’s book collection. Cooke has access to ‘the Earl of Pembroke’s Library’. 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]).