Letter 2873

Walter Harris to Hans Sloane – October 3, 1722


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Date: October 3, 1722
Author: Walter Harris
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 300-301



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[fol. 300] Sir, If your Leasure Will permit you, I should be glad, if you Would please to appoint & Order, either saturday, monday, or Wednesday next, for me to read a Lecture. I find the Beedle is still deficient, or neglects to give the Permissi, or others, a Forme of a Note, to be left at the Fellows houses, in their absence, upon Visiting. Of old it was: Sir, Here was to wait on you, in order to his Exam: or Adm for Licentiate of the College, Yr humb. servt, as is allwaies Yours, W. Harris. Oct. 3 1722.

Walter Harris was a physician whose Catholicism caused him trouble early in his career. In 1682 he became a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians where from 1710 to 1732 he was Lumleian lecturer. He published several works on medicine (Elizabeth Lane Furdell, Harris, Walter (16471732), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12422, accessed 18 July 2013]).




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