Letter 0394

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William Sherard to Hans Sloane – October 25, 1694


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Date: October 25, 1694
Author: William Sherard
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: f. 186


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[fol. 186] Dear Sr I was in hopes before this to have seen your Prodromus but supposing it to be at London for want of a convenient opportunity of sending of it, thought first to let you know yr if you please to honour me wth one my Brother will send it me by Mr Scawen upon talking to Dr Herman about ye Corlax Winteranus, he shew’d me a little bit of it, you will infinitely oblige him, if you will send to him a piece of it, as also of yr Canella alba wth ye outside bark on it, wch he has not, his being only yr inner part. I have given a large acct to Capt’n Hatton of ye proceeding of Botany & books printing here, to whom I refer you wth ye rest of ye Gent. of ye Clubb if I can do you any service here or elsewhere in my travells there shall be nothing wanting yt has in my power if you’ll be pleased to read ye comands to Sr yr most humble serv’t W Sherard Leyden oct. 25.11.S.94

Sherard was a botanist and cataloguer. He worked for the Turkish Company at Smyrna where he collected botanical specimens and antiques (D. E. Allen, ‘Sherard, William (1659–1728)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25355, accessed 24 June 2011]).



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