Record

RefNoLBO/31/1
AltRefNoLBO/31/1
LevelFile
TitleCopy letter from Thomas Hearne, Oxford, to Hans Sloane
Date3 January 1710
Description ' Inclosing the following.'

'Above a month since I received a Letter from Mr Thoresby of Leeds concerning some old Instruments lataely found in Yorkshire. They are ll of the same Figure, and therefore he only sent me a Draught of one. He desired my opinion, which accordingly I have given in the inclosed Papers. I understand by him that he writ an Account himself to your of these Monuments, which I suppose will be inserted in the Transactions, If it shall be thought proper, I give free Liberty of addimg my Letter to him at large, which I have now transmitted for that purpose.

I am, with the greatest Respect
Sir, Your most humble Sevant
Thomas Hearne. '

Read at the Royal Society on 11 January 1709
Extent1p
FormatManuscript
AccessStatusOpen
RelatedMaterialLBO/31/2;
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