John McBride to Hans Sloane – December 30, 1700
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Date: December 30, 1700 Author: John McBride Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038 Folio: ff. 117-118
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English
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British Library, London
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Patronage, Philosophical Transactions, Scholarship, Social
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Books, Recommendations
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December 30, 1700
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Belfast
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James Boyd
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McBride praises Sloane’s work and blesses his family. He recommends the bearer James Boyd, an apothecary from Dublin. McBride discusses books Sloane was involved in publishing and the Philosophical Transactions. He updates Sloane on his family’s condition. John McBride (ca. 1650-1718) was Minister of the Presbyterian General Synod of Ulster and a religious controversialist (D. W. Hayton, ‘McBride, John (c.1650–1718)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17361, accessed 14 June 2011]).
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