Letter 2118

Gyllenborg asks whether a Swedish gentleman may come to view Sloane’s cabinet of curiosities. Count Carl Gyllenborg (1679-1746) was a Swedish playwright and statesman. He studied at Uppsala University, served in the army, and was stationed at the Swedish Embassy in London before being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1711. Gyllenborg’s wife, Sarah, had ties with the Jacobites and aroused the government’s suspicion in 1717. The pair were arrested for alleged involvement in a plot against the House of Hanover. Gyllenborg returned to Sweden, working at the universities of Lund and Uppsala until his death (https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27gyllenborg%27%29).