John Welbe to Hans Sloane – September 18, 1716
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Date: September 18, 1716 Author: John Welbe Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044 Folio: f. 213
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English
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British Library, London
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Legal, Patronage, Scientific, Travel
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Australia, Debts, Exploration, Pharmaceuticals, Prison, Venereal Disease
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September 18, 1716
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Wood Street Compter
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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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