Letter 1111

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Alexander Stuart to Hans Sloane – January 10, 1706/07


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Date: January 10, 1706/07
Author: Alexander Stuart
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 289-290


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[fol. 289] January 10, 1706/07. Much Honoured Sir Tho Ive been unwilling To give you the trouble of many letters Yet I know its my duety, to pay my Respects to you, with all convenient opportunitys. This comes to salute you in acknowledgement of your singular favours, and to return you my humble thanks. Blessed be God we have hithertill had a safe and prosperous Voyage, to Persia, Surat, Bombay and Carnar. Were design’d againe for Bombay, and from thence to Mocco, China, or Persia: and hope to be on our return for England, in twelve moneths hence. Nothing has hithertill fallen in my way, worthy of being sent or wrot of to you: if it does, I think my self obliged to contribute my endeavours: tho I beleive nothing will be new to you. Being unwilling to trouble you further, I onely add my humble respects to your self, Lady and family, Being Much Honoured Sir Your most humble and obliged Servt Alexander Stuart This comes by Mr. Barckley Chyrurgeon of the Eaton Friggott

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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