Letter 4210

S Doody to Brother Petiver –


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Author: S Doody
Recipient: Brother Petiver

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: MS 4066
Folio: f. 327



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Brother Petiver On Monday or Tuseday next is the hearing at the Bar of the house of Lds upon the writ of [Error?] between the Colledge and and relative to practice. You are desiered to speake to my Ld London and what peers you can or make by friends with speed because the time is short and this is as the ….… [couse?] ..e… to our [companny?] I am your humble servt S Doody pray acquaint all Breatheren who you [th?]inke may be usefull

Samuel Doody informs James Petiver of a hearing concerning the College. Samuel Doody was a botanist, elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1695. According to contemporaries his personality prevented him from publishing or presenting his work, though he contributed one article to the Philosophical Transactions. Many of his dried plant specimens were housed in Sloane’s herbarium (B. D. Jackson, Doody, Samuel (16561706), rev. Ruth Stungo, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7825, accessed 9 July 2013]).




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