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
Author:Recipient:
Know all Men by those presents, that I John George Steigertahl Doctor do hereby constitute and appoint Mr. Ernst August Jager, Apoticary to Her Majesty ye Queen of Great Brittain at London, St James receive for me only by a Note of my own Hand all Dividends now due and that shall or may hereafter become payable for any my share or Interest mentioned once by the said Note in the Capital Stock and Funds of the governor and Company of the Bank of England for the Time being. In witness where of I have hereunto set my Hand and seal In Hannover this twenty fourth Day of November new still in the year of our Lord One Thousand seven Hundred and twenty eight.
L.S. John George Steigertahl
Sealed and delivered in the presence of us two wittnesses and me Notary publick.
L.S. Ludolph Otto von Andersen
L.S. Johan George Achatz Burchardi
and my Notary Publick Jean Henry Marwede
NB. That Dividends for Bank Stock may be received by a Note under the Hand of the Proprietor.
Read more- Letter 3978
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