Letter 1415

Samuel Dale to Hans Sloane – January 26, 1708/09


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Date: January 26, 1708/09
Author: Samuel Dale
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 277-278



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Dale explains the comments he made apropos Ray’s monument and the money to be paid to Mrs Ray. He lists a number of books he wishes to borrow and describes a text whose author he wishes to identify. Samuel Dale was an apothecary, botanist, and physician who contributed several articles to the Philosophical Transactions. He was John Ray’s executor and good friend, and from Dale’s letters to Sloane we learn many details of Ray’s final moments (G. S. Boulger, Dale, Samuel (bap. 1659, d. 1739), rev. Juanita Burnby, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7016, accessed 5 July 2013]).




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