Letter 3266

Barham senior’s estate has been left to his wife. Barham junior and his sister are disappointed not to have received anything. He plans on purchasing his father’s books from his father’s widow, which include the ‘History of Jamaica wch he had butt just finished’. The book was discussed by the Jamaican Assembly and there are supposedly plans to have it ‘printed at ye Countreys expence’. Barham senior’s widow is thinking of selling the book privately. Barham junior delivered the second volume of the Natural History of Jamaica to his father before his death. The book has been borrowed by many people, as there are only two other copies on the island. Barham junior sells medicines. He hopes to make enough money to be able to settle in England. Dr Matthew Gregory did the same and made a fortune. Barham junior just received the letter Sloane had written to Barham senior. He will do the work his father said he would do for Sloane, involving the South Sea Company. Barham junior offers his service to Sloane. Henry Barham junior was the son of Henry Barham, a surgeon, author of the Hortus Americanus, and correspondent of Sloane’s. Barham junior practiced medicine in Jamaica during the early eighteenth century, married into a wealthy family, sold his property, and moved to Staines, Middlesex in 1740 (T. F. Henderson, Barham, Henry (1670?1726), rev. Anita McConnell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1374, accessed 15 Aug 2013]).