Letter 1660

James Yonge to Hans Sloane – March 17, 1709


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Date: March 17, 1709
Author: James Yonge
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 114-115



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Yonge thanks Sloane for sending Cyprianus’ book. His son is visiting France and Holland. Yonge asks Sloane to write a note of support to give his new work authority. Leeuwenhoek has some of Yonge’s papers. James Yonge was a surgeon and physician of Plymouth with experience as a ship’s surgeon. He was a prominent citizen in his native Plymouth and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1702 (Ian Lyle, Yonge, James (16471721), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30225, accessed 25 May 2011]).




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