Robert Sibbald to Hans Sloane – May 14, 1701
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Date: May 14, 1701 Author: Robert Sibbald Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038 Folio: ff. 167-168
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English
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British Library, London
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Patronage, Philosophical Transactions, Travel
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Holland, Manuscripts, Poetry, Recommendations
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May 14, 1701
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Alexander Edward Charles Littleton Mr Porterfield
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Reverend Alexander Edward is to travel through England and the Low Countries. He wantts to meet with Sloane and carries poetry and manuscripts that might be of interest. Sibbald recommends Littleton and Porterfield. He thanks Sloane for the Philosophical Transactions. Sibbald was a physician and a geographer. He was physician to James VII (Charles W. J. Withers, Sibbald, Sir Robert (16411722), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25496, accessed 19 June 2013]).
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