Letter 0585

Robert Sibbald to Hans Sloane – June 13, 1699


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Date: June 13, 1699
Author: Robert Sibbald
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: f. 290



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Sibbald sends a copy of his ‘Memoria Balfouriana’ and some curiosities. He thanks Sloane for sending Mr Lloyd’s book. Sibbald was a physician and a geographer. He was physician to James VII (Charles W. J. Withers, Sibbald, Sir Robert (16411722), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25496, accessed 19 June 2013]).




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