Record

RefNoMS/790/48
LevelItem
TitleCopy letter from Martin Folkes to Phillips Glover
Date4 May 1737
DescriptionHe has received Glover's letter of 27 April 1737 bt has been delayed in making up accounts as an Executor. Jonathan Richardson junior had indeed mentioned a conversation about the St. John’s Epistle in the famous Greek manuscript of the Vatican Library during which Folkes was supposed to have ill-used Richardson. Richardson did not mention Glover's name and Folkes told him what he considered to be the truth, to the best of his recollection. Folkes took the thing for a mistake, giving his reasoning. He viewed the manuscript while in Rome and the text was not there, nor was here any erasure, and the page bore the signs of antiquity. He reiterates what he said to Richardson, concluding that 'The private reflections upon the fact every man must make according to his own Judgement and I even apprehend Mr. Richardson entirely gives up that the fact is as I have related; however he thinks he was drawn into the mistake, by a wrong Books having been purposely shown him which I have no concern in'.
Extent3p.
FormatManuscript
PhysicalDescriptionOn paper
AccessStatusOpen
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