Patrick Blair to Hans Sloane – January 23, 1710
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Date: January 23, 1710 Author: Patrick Blair Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042 Folio: ff. 90-91
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English
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British Library, London
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Collections, Royal Society, Scholarship
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Books, Botany, Copper Plates, Elephants, Publishing
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January 23, 1710
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Dundee
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Samuel Dale John Ray Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
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Blair worries that the copper plates he sent to Sloane are of insufficient quality. He apologizes for any inconvenience. Blair mentions some botanical treatises and a text on elephants he wants to send to Sloane. Patrick Blair was a botanist and surgeon whose papers were published in the Transactions. In 1715 Blair joined the Jacobite rebellion as a battle surgeon but was captured and condemned to death. He was visited by Sloane in prison in the hopes the latter might secure a pardon. Sloane was successful and the pardon arrived shortly before Blair’s scheduled execution (Anita Guerrini, Blair, Patrick (c.16801728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2568, accessed 31 May 2011]).
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