Letter 4139

Ames writes to Sloane updating him on Job as Sloane requested. Ames and Job went to Hamlin’s Coffee house at the exchange where they met Mr Blewit with whom Ames had a slight argument. “The Company” is a topic of conversation which has a ship bound for Gambia which Job will sail on. Joseph Ames (bap.1687, d.1759) bibliographer and antiquary, elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1743. He was admitted to the Society of antiquaries and contributed to their Thursday meetings. He frequented university libraries as well as those of the members of both societies. (Robin Myers, ‘Ames, Joseph (bap. 1687, d. 1759)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/439, accessed 13 Aug 2015])