Letter 4230

Shaw writes to Sloane about sending him a small task of il via coach which he should receive on Thursday. He took a small tour around the Island and talks of needing rain. He will be coming home to Oxford via London and would like to stop and give Sloane an account of his transactions. Thomas Shaw (1694-1751) was a traveller of North Africa and the Near East. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1734. Shaw was Chaplain to the English Factory at Algiers. He later served as Chaplain of St. Edmund Hall and Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford. His book ‘Travels, or, Observations Relating to Several Parts of Barbary and the Levant’ was published in 1738 (Peta Rée, ‘Shaw, Thomas (1694–1751)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25269, accessed 28 Aug 2014]).