Satirical poem in the form of a letter from Thomas Hearne to Sir Hans Sloane

This material is held atUniversity of Leeds Special Collections

  • Reference
    • GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 112
  • Dates of Creation
    • ca. 1725-1775
  • Name of Creator
  • Language of Material
    • English
  • Physical Description
    • 2 ff. conjoined, manuscript. Written in a single mid-eighteenth-century hand.

Scope and Content

Comprises a copy of "An epistolary letter from T----- H----- to Sr H--- Sloan- who saved his life ... ", published according to Foxon's English verse, 1701-1750, E437, in 1729.

Administrative / Biographical History

Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), the historical antiquary, took his M.A. at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford in 1703 and became second keeper of the Bodleian Library in 1712. For fuller details of his life and writings see the Dictionary of National Biography.

Access Information

Access is unrestricted.

Acquisition Information

Purchased from Heath's bookshop on 4 July 1996.

Note

In English.

Other Finding Aids

The poem is indexed in the BCMSV database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/bcmsv/bcmvlink.htm#bclt112