Letter 0760

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Alexander Stuart to Hans Sloane – July 24, 1702


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Date: July 24, 1702
Author: Alexander Stuart
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: f. 11


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[fol. 11] Fort St. George July 24 1702. Much honoured Sir I presume to give you this truble of this letter to acknowledge your manyfold favours and to present you my humble respects with this short acct of our voyage hithertill. The fifth of March we sailed out of the Downs, Touched at Modora the 24th, And made the Cape of Good-Hope May 31st. Whence we arrived here to day in about five Moneths from England which is reckoned a good passage, all our Company blessed be God in good health and none missing. We are Bound hence in a few dayes for Bengala and thence its like for Malacca. I have nothing so remarkable or Curious in our Voyage hithertill as to be worth your while to read. If any thing occurs dureing our stay in the Indies I shall hold my self very happy if and acct thereof at any time shall be any wayes acceptable to you, being with humble Respect Much Honoured Sir Your most humble and obliged servt Alexander Stuart

Stuart was a physician and natural philosopher. He served as a ship’s surgeon from 1701-1707 and corresponded with Sloane while at sea, sending him natural history specimens. Stuart contributed articles to the Philosophical Transactions from the 1720s, mostly on physiology (Anita Guerrini, Stuart, Alexander (1673?1742), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47081, accessed 3 July 2013]).



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