Letter 1866

John Morton to Hans Sloane – September 8, 1712


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Date: September 8, 1712
Author: John Morton
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 88-89



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Morton sends seven copies of his Natural History of Northamptonshire and £5 to pay for the subscriptions. He asks Sloane to tell Sir Isaac Newton he is at his service. Morton includes a receipt for the seven books. John Morton was a naturalist who was in correspondence with Sloane from roughly 1703 to 1716. Morton contributed nearly one thousand specimens (fossils, shells, bones, teeth, minerals, rocks, man-made artifacts, etc.) to Sloane’s collection (Yolanda Foote, Morton, John (16711726), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19364, accessed 2 July 2013]).




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