Letter 2890

Charles du Bois to Hans Sloane – June 25, 1725


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Date: June 25, 1725
Author: Charles du Bois
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4048
Folio: f. 8



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[fol. 8] Sr My thanks being paid only verbally for your Noble present, I take this occasion of returning your Paper, & also of repeating my acknowledgement for you curious & instructing Book, & for the humanity you have always shew’d me, & particularly in your last kind allowing an old Acquaintance to take up some of your valuable time to see the great accessions to your ample Collection I shall with great pleasure attend your, when your more significant affaires will allow you to give me notice when my Attendance on you will be least inconvenient. I am Yor Obliged humb servt Charles du Bois June 25, 1725.

Charles du Bois was a botanist working as the cashier-general of the East India Company. He became acquainted with other natural historians like James Petiver, William Sherard and Sloane, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1700 (B. D. Jackson, Dubois, Charles (bap. 1658, d. 1740), rev. P. E. Kell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8113, accessed 8 July 2013]).




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