Letter 4534

George Richmond to Hans Sloane – August 20, 1732


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Date: August 20, 1732
Author: George Richmond
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: ff. 168-169



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[fol. 168] Sr I send you enclosd ye bill of lading for your Books in a Box directed for your Honnour to be left at ye Custom House at London I am sorry they have been so long in Coming by waiting at Rouen and at last oblig’d to send them to Diepe the whole of ye Expence amounts to seven pounds if your Honnour thinks proper to Employ the other 5 pounds your Honnours Commands shall be punctually obey’d in in what manner you think proper Either in Books or Prints and in any thing I Can Serve your Honnour it will be the Greatest pleasure to Sr your Honnours most oblig’d most Humble & obedient servant G: Richmond Paris Agust [sic] ye 20th 1732 NS.

George Richmond was Secretary to Baron Petre. He later became a bookseller in Paris.




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