William Sherard to Hans Sloane – August 31, 1700
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Date: August 31, 1700 Author: William Sherard Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038 Folio: ff. 58-59
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English
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British Library, London
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Scientific, Social
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Botany, Marriage, Plants, Seeds, Specimens
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August 31, 1700
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Badminton
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Paul Hermann
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[fol. 58] Dear Sr. I return you the inclos’d, yt you may see what Madn Her man desires, Ime sorry my circumstances in justice to my own unhappy family will not permit me to do what otherwise I shou’d be very meineable to I shall answer her next post. I hope Mr. Jones will bring over seeds as well as specimens, I have writ to all my cor–rispondts to procure what I can for her Grace who deserves the ye best of ay body I know, & I donot not but in a few years here will be ye best garden in Europe. Mr Crow I hear sets forward on Tuesday for London, I suppose about to discourse Ld Carbery tho am told here it will come to nothing. I find he Grace mighty inclinable to marry my Ld Duke & the might either do that or send him abroad wch shee will never hear of my humble service to yr good family & all friends at ye Clubb. I am Dear Sr. yr most obliged humble Serv’t WSherard Badmington Aug. 31 1700
Sherard was a botanist and cataloguer. He worked for the Turkish Company at Smyrna where he collected botanical specimens and antiques (D. E. Allen, Sherard, William (16591728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25355, accessed 24 June 2011]).
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