Letter 1219

Pierre Bonnet Bourdelot to Sloane's Representative (Unnamed) – June 25, 1698


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Date: June 25, 1698
Author: Pierre Bonnet Bourdelot
Recipient: Sloane's Representative (Unnamed)

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 89-90



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Bourdelot addresses an unidentified representative of Sloane’s and states that Sloane’s catalogue is of great interest to him. He plans to continue the Van der Linden catalogue of medical books and asks if Sloane would be willing to help with regards to English medical books and their authors. Bourdelot awaits the Royal Society’s report on dwarfism and shares a number of anecdotes on the subject. Pierre Bonnet Bourdelot was physician to Louis XIV and the Duchess of Burgundy.




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