Letter 3810

Richard Richardson to Hans Sloane – June 16, 1702


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Date: June 16, 1702
Author: Richard Richardson
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 353-354



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[fol. 353] North Bierley June 16 702 Worthy Sir I am glad to heare by your last that the designes were soe diverting to your Society, I hope longe agoe you got the coale plants & safe there are some 2 or 3 small ones which if you have time to examine them nicely you wil find the representations of seed upon them which is rare to be met with specimens of our same northern plants I am mounting for you I said with I knowe of any thing else that My country affords which I might find along with them that nigh & pound weight of stones voyded by urine in her then I years time by a person in Hallifax parish I have some of them by me that weigh nigh xxgr a piece & mr preistley in whose hands they now are told me there were much larger which he had disposed of, they are of very irregulare formes & the poor man voided of them dayly not with out very violent paine I wil save some of them for you to be sent with the plants this being soe unnaturall a case I could not omit it for a person of your curiosity & of any thing in naurall history occurr worthy of your observation I shall not be wanting in my comunications: & if any duplicats occurr to you in the regutation of your curiouse collection when you have time to regulate them any […] of naturell History obliged [?] to a [?] us […] ardson [fol. 353 v] Mr Bonivert drink with me this day, we drinke your health & he gives you his humble service

Richardson was a physician and botanist who traveled widely in England, Wales, and Scotland in search of rare specimens. He corresponded and exchanged plants with many well-known botanists and naturalists (W. P. Courtney, Richardson, Richard (16631741), rev. Peter Davis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23576, accessed 31 May 2011]).




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