John Woodward to Hans Sloane – January 5, 1715/16
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Date: January 5, 1715/16 Author: John Woodward Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044 Folio: ff. 123-124
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British Library, London
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Patronage
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Recommendations, Teaching
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January 5, 1715/16
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Gr. Coll.
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Mr Lacey
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[fol. 124] Sr. The Bearer, Mr. Lacey, is a very learned good Man. He proposes to teach School in that Neighbourhood. If you please to recommend him among your Acquaintance, twill be a service both to them & Him. I flatter my Self you will not be wanting in so good a Work: & I shall be forward to Serve any Friend of Yours, on like Occasion. I am Sr. Your Most obedient humble Servant Woodward Gr. Coll. 5 Jun 1715
Woodward was a physician, natural historian and antiquary who expounded a theory of the earth in which fossils were creatures destroyed by the biblical flood. This embroiled him in a controversy in which he was opposed by John Ray, Edward Llwyd, Martin Lister, and Tancred Robinson (J. M. Levine, Woodward, John (1665/16681728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29946, accessed 17 June 2011]).
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