John Morton to Hans Sloane – October 5, 1712
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Date: October 5, 1712 Author: John Morton Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043 Folio: ff. 96-97
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English
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British Library, London
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Royal Society, Scholarship, Trade or Commodities
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Books, Booksellers, Natural History, Northamptonshire, Publishing
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October 5, 1712
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Oxendon
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Mr Balle Harry Hook Bishop of Carlisle Bishop of St Davids Thomas Isted
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Morton apologizes for a mistake in his Natural History of Northamptonshire. He hopes it does not reflect poorly on Sloane or the Royal Society. Morton requests that Sloane will introduce a man from his parish, Harry Hook, to people like ‘Mr. Isted, Mr. Balle, [and] Mr. Waller’ when he is in London. The book he published has been ‘deliver’d by my printer Mr Roberts’ and is on its way to his ‘booksellers Mr Wilkin and Mr Knaplock’. 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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