William Sherard to Hans Sloane – April 14, 1701
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Date: April 14, 1701 Author: William Sherard Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038 Folio: f. 156
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English
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British Library, London
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Library, Scholarship, Travel
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Books, Greece, Near East, Syria, Turkey
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April 14, 1701
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Badmington
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Principe di Catolica Mr Bateman Joseph Pitton de Tournefort Mr Brown
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Sherard discusses procuring books for Sloane. He has received a letter from Tournefort, which he quotes in its entirety. Tournefort recounts his travels through the Near East, including Constantinople, Syria, and Parnassus. Sherard forwards a letter from Principe di Catolica. See: Sloane MS 4038 fol. 157. 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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