James Sherard to Hans Sloane – Dec 1, 1732
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Date: Dec 1, 1732 Author: James Sherard Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052 Folio: f. 227
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British Library, London
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Books, Gratitiude
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Dec 1, 1732
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Eltham
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MS 4052 Fol. 227 Sr I send herewith a copy of the Hortus Eltha-mensis which Mr Dillenius is now publishing, you will see that he has not studied to adorn wither his Book or my Garden, his Cheifcare having been to me prove and advance the knowledge of Botany, how-ever such as it is I beg you’l do me the Honour to accept it as a token of freindship and gratitude from Sr your most obliged and very obedient serv James Sherard Eltham Der 1.1732 I design to present one Book to the Colledge of Physitians and have desired Dr Monro to learn the proper time and manner of doing it.
James Sherard (1666-1738) apprenticed as an apothecary to Charles Watts. He practiced as an apothecary in Mark Lane, London and retired in 1720. Sherard was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1706. In his retirement he pursued the collection of rare plants and became a well known botanist, though not as well known as his brother William Sherard (FRS 1720). James Sherard spent the 1720s travelling and collecting specimens by 1730 was managing the Chelsea Gardens. (W. W. Webb, ‘Sherard, James (1666–1738)’, rev. Scott Mandelbrote, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2013 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25354, accessed 16 June 2015]).
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