Letter 4451

Thomas Cooke to Hans Sloane – March 13, 1731[/32]


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Date: March 13, 1731[/32]
Author: Thomas Cooke
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: f. 85



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Cooke thanks Sloane for sending the first volume of his Natural History of Jamaica. He requests that Sloane send the second volume and read the enclosed paper, which is to be published in ‘the Traveller’. 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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