Letter 0354

Barwick thanks Sloane for the advice regarding his daughter. He asks Sloane to collect what is owed him from Mr More for tending to the Duchess of Albemarle. When Barwick saw More at the coffeehouse More told him he would pay him the next time they met. Barwick has not been paid, but he does not want to visit More, for if he goes to town he will be expected to pay his tailor’s bill ‘& some other debts unpaid’. Barwick cannot maintain a practice in London ‘upon 3 or 4 Patients only’. Mr Woodward ‘gives his humble service’ to Sloane. Peter Barwick (1619-1705) was a physician. He served Charles II in 1651 and was censor of the College of Physicians in 1674, 1684, and 1687. Sir Hans Sloane was one of the executors of Barwick’s will (Peter Elmer, ‘Barwick, Peter (1619–1705)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1614, accessed 9 July 2014]).