Letter 1405

Peter Hotton to Hans Sloane – November 2, 1703


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Date: November 2, 1703
Author: Peter Hotton
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 208-209



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Hotton wants to settle his account with Sloane for the books and publications he purchased in the last year. He requests a copy of the Royal Society’s Catalogue. He includes a list of recently published books on botany and mentions that he has heard that someone has written a history of Naples. Peter Hotton (1648-1709), also known as Petrus Houttuyn, was Professor of Botany and Medicine at Leiden University. He supervised the university’s botanic gardens (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrus_Houttuyn).




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