Christopher Merret to Hans Sloane – October 19, 1696
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Date: October 19, 1696 Author: Christopher Merret Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036 Folio: f. 269
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English
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British Library, London
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Collections, Scholarship, Travel
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Birds, Ornithology, Papers, Portugal, Publishing, Specimens
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October 19, 1696
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Boston
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Merret was called to King’s Lynn from Boston because of ‘the Arrival of two vessels from O Porto’. Upon returning home he is unable to find his ‘Papers of Observatns’. Merret asks Sloane to return the copies he sent him or publish what he pleases. He hopes the dozen ‘Knotts or King Canutus Bird’ he sent to Sloane arrive soon. 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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