Christopher Merret to Hans Sloane – September 15, 1696
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Date: September 15, 1696 Author: Christopher Merret Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036 Folio: f. 259
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English
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British Library, London
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Collections, Social, Travel
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Gratitude, Plants, Specimens
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September 15, 1696
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Boston
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Merret thanks Sloane for his favours and the hospitality shown him while he visited London. He asks how he can be of service to Sloane and writes of some plant specimens he has procured. Christopher Merret was a physician, natural philosopher, and worked as the Librarian to the Royal College of Physicians (D. E. Allen, ‘Merret , Christopher (1614–1695)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2013 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18599, accessed 12 May 2015]).
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