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Archive Reference / Library Class No.D517/BOX/A/10/21
TitleA poetic skit addressed "To Sir Hans Sloon from a gentleman whom he had desired to collect rarities for him", discussing the accumulation by Sir Hans Sloane of a vast collection and containing a list of far-fetched impossible rarities
Date[late 18th cent]
Extent1 item (2 pages)
LevelItem
RepositoryDerbyshire Record Office
Archive CreatorMiller Mundy family of Shipley Hall, Heanor
Administrative HistorySir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) donated his extensive collection of over 70,000 items to the British nation. The collection became the foundation of the British Museum and Natural History Museum.
FormatDocument
CopiesA digital copy of this item can be viewed on the public computers at the record office.
TermPoetry
Satire
Transcript or IndexFor a transcript, see Edward Walford (1878) 'Old and New London: Volume 4', available British History Online (link below), pages 490-519. The text also appears in John Croft (1792) 'Scrapeana. Fugitive miscellany'
AcknowledgementsD517/Box/A/10/1-23 have been described by Cataloguing Volunteer, Roger Jennens in October 2022.
Useful Linkshttp://www.british-history.ac.uk/old-new-london/vol4

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