Letter 1721

Robert Sibbald to Hans Sloane – January 17, 1711


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Date: January 17, 1711
Author: Robert Sibbald
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 231-232



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Sibbald sends some books he published or is thinking of publishing. He asks for Sloane’s opinion of them. Sir Robert 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 7 June 2011]).




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