Letter 0727

John McBride to Hans Sloane – January 16, 1701/02


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Date: January 16, 1701/02
Author: John McBride
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 288-289



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McBride thanks Sloane for the Philosophical Transactions. He recommends the bearer, a medical student named James McCartney. McBride explains that McCartney is in London to increase his medical knowledge. John McBride (ca. 1650-1718) was Minister of the Presbyterian General Synod of Ulster and a religious controversialist (D. W. Hayton, ‘McBride, John (c.1650–1718)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17361, accessed 14 June 2011]).




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