Letter 0706

William Sherard to Hans Sloane – September 27, 1701


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Date: September 27, 1701
Author: William Sherard
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 244-245



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Sherard apologizes for troubling Sloane about the prints as they were not sent through him after all. Some dried plants have been sent to him by Dr Niccola. Sherard writes that ‘Ld Rockinghams councell being sick’ the past several weeks ‘puts a stop to it’, not specifying what ‘it’ is. 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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