Letter 2107

John Welbe to Hans Sloane – September 18, 1716


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Date: September 18, 1716
Author: John Welbe
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: f. 213



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Welbe seeks support for a proposed excursion to ‘Terra Australis Incognita’, which he thinks would be of great advantage to Britain. He is in prison due to his owing ‘the summ of six pound (which debt was ocationed by my long attendance at the Court’. He includes a recipe for an ‘antivenerial water’.




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