Letter 1384

Robert Sibbald to Hans Sloane – November 2, 1708


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Date: November 2, 1708
Author: Robert Sibbald
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 239-240



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Sibbald informs Sloane that he has ceased printing the work on antiquities. Instead, he wants to finish publishing a work that was commissioned by King Charles II. Sibbald was a physician and a geographer. He was physician to James VII (Charles W. J. Withers, Sibbald, Sir Robert (16411722), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25496, accessed 19 June 2013]).




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