Letter 4055

Daniel Malthus to Hans Sloane – June 25, 1713


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Date: June 25, 1713
Author: Daniel Malthus
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 157-158



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[fol. 157] S’r Dr Arbuthnott desired me to acquaint the Phisicians that Her Majesty is verry well, But that they were desired to meet at His lodging in St James’s house to morrow, at such time as they found most convenient I was with Dr Lawrence, who would accomodate Himselfe to you, but since no time is set, He names twelve, unless you should all agree on any other time, and in that case he desires notice may be sent of it to me, and He will comply with it. I am S’r yr humble servant Daniel Malthus June 25, 1713

Daniel Malthus (1651-1717) served as apothecary to Queen Anne and George I and was the great-grandfather of the political economist and demographer Thomas Robert Malthus (J. M. Pullen, ‘Malthus, (Thomas) Robert (1766–1834)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17902, accessed 7 July 2014]).




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