Letter 0564

Patrick Gordon to Hans Sloane – March 7, 1699


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Date: March 7, 1699
Author: Patrick Gordon
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 223-224



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Gordon thanks Sloane for lending him books. He used them in writing his Treatise, of which he has enclosed a copy for Sloane. Patrick Gordon (d. 1702) was a Naval Chaplain on the HMS Salisbury. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1694 (https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=5&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27gordon%27%29).




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