Letter 4062

Ad: Buddle to J. Petiver – wednesday


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Date: wednesday
Author: Ad: Buddle
Recipient: J. Petiver

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: MS 4066
Folio: f. 277



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Dear ffriend To morrow my child is to bee made a Xtian therefore ye leg of pork must be eat on fryday exactly at one of ye clock pray let Dr […] know so much If you cant come let me know to morrow by twelve of ye clock Your heartyly Ad: Buddle Wednesday

Buddle informs Petiver that his “child is to bee made a Xtian[.]” Adam Buddle (bap. 1662, d. 1715) was a botanist and an ordained minister with the Church of England. While living in Henley, Suffolk, Buddle corresponded with James Petiver and Samuel Doody. Buddle had an impressive collection of mosses and grasses that he lent to Petiver and Doody, which were later passed on to Tournefort and Bobart. Buddle also acquired several specimens of English flora, which he bequeathed to Sloane. (James Britten, ‘Buddle, Adam (bap. 1662, d. 1715)’, rev. Janet Browne, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3883, accessed 22 June 2015])




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