Patrick Blair to Hans Sloane – April 20 ,1706
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Date: April 20 ,1706 Author: Patrick Blair Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040 Folio: f. 150
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English
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British Library, London
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Government, Scholarship, Scientific
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Books, Botany, Customs, Plants, Post
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April 20 ,1706
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Dundee
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Blair is glad the papers have arrived and were merely delayed by customs. He asks that Sloane provide his opinion of them. Blair plans on giving full descriptions of ‘all the Plants contain’d in the Manuale’. Patrick Blair was a botanist and surgeon whose papers were published in the Transactions. In 1715 Blair joined the Jacobite rebellion as a battle surgeon but was captured and condemned to death. He was visited by Sloane in prison in the hopes the latter might secure a pardon. Sloane was successful and the pardon arrived shortly before Blair’s scheduled execution (Anita Guerrini, Blair, Patrick (c.16801728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2568, accessed 31 May 2011]).
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