Samuel Dale to Hans Sloane – October 27, 1707
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Date: October 27, 1707 Author: Samuel Dale Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041 Folio: ff. 46-47
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English
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British Library, London
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Collections, Library, Scholarship, Social
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Books, Entomology, Fossils, Gifts, Insects, Jamaica, Natural History, Specimens
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Date (as written)
October 27, 1707
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Braintree
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Robert Hooke John Ray
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[fol. 47] Braintree Oct. 27 1707 Sr Herewith you will Receive your Collection of Hook’s Papers for the loan of which I return you thanks; I intended it should have been Accompanied with Harwick fossells, and Mr Rays Insects but my time hath not permitted me to put the names to them, and therefore have reather chosse to omit them, then to seem ungratefull in not sooner acknowledging you extraordinary kindness in the valuable present of your book which I received very safe and return my most hearty thanks for it. assuring you that I am Sr Your obliged humble sert S: Dale
Samuel Dale was an apothecary, botanist, and physician who contributed several articles to the Philosophical Transactions. He was John Ray’s executor and good friend, and from Dale’s letters to Sloane we learn many details of Ray’s final moments (G. S. Boulger, Dale, Samuel (bap. 1659, d. 1739), rev. Juanita Burnby, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7016, accessed 5 July 2013]).
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