Letter 1056

Richard Middleton Massey to Hans Sloane – June 19, 1706


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Date: June 19, 1706
Author: Richard Middleton Massey
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 181-182



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Massey has heard that Sloane has several things to send. He provides mailing instructions. He has little to offer by way of curiosities, save for some coins that were recently dug up. Richard Middleton Massey (1678-1743) attended Brasenose College, Oxford but left before obtaining a degree. In 1706 he was admitted Extra-Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and settled in Wisbech where he practiced medicine. Massey was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1712. He compiled the catalogue of the library of the Royal College of Physicians in 1727 (http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/2969).




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