Welcome to The Sloane Letters Project
A pilot of this project, Sir Hans Sloane’s Correspondence Online, was first launched at the University of Saskatchewan in 2010 to coincide with the 350th anniversary of Sir Hans Sloane’s birth. The project was renamed The Sloane Letters Project when it moved to this site in 2016.
The correspondence of Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753) consists of thirty-eight volumes held at the British Library, London: MSS 4036-4069, 4075-4078. The letters are a rich source of information about topics such as scientific discourse, collections of antiquities, curiosities and books, patients’ illnesses, medical treatments and family history. Most of the letters were addressed to Sloane, but a few volumes were addressed to others (MSS 4063-4067) or written by Sloane (MSS 4068-4069).
So far, we have entered descriptions and metadata for Sloane MSS 4036-4053 and 4075, as well as several letters from each of the following: Sloane MSS 4054-4055, 4066, 4068-4069 and 4076. Several of these entries also include transcriptions. Further entries and transcriptions are being made available gradually.
Please, explore the website and database. You can search through the letters, learn about Sir Hans Sloane or the letters written to him, and peruse blog posts about interesting letters!
Random Letter
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Passionei
MonSieur
J’ai reçû, il y a quelque temp le pacquet, que vous avez eû la bontè de m’envoyer par Mr. Sardi celèbre Banquier d’Amsterdam je ne doute pas, que la Caisse remplie des livres, que vous me le mandates d’acheter pour vous avec mon livre, qui traite de L’Histoire naturelle de l’Isle de Jamaique, que j’ai pris la libertè de vous presenter de ma part, ne soit deja delivree entre vos mains, aussi j’espere qu’on vous a envoiè le catalogue des livres contenues avec leur prix, & que vous le trouvez à votre grè. Quoi que la pluspart des ces livres sont fort rares il n’y a qu’un ou deux qui manquent, que je n’oublierai pas d’acheter, s’il se presentera une occasion. Au reste soyez persuadè que je me ferai toujour un honneur de vous Servir, autant que je serai capable. J’ai l’honneur d’estre avec profond respect
Monsieur votre tres humble & tres ob. Servtr.
Londre le 8me du moi de Juin. 1730
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