Letter 1186

Robert Sibbald to Hans Sloane – November 24, 1707


Item info

Date: November 24, 1707
Author: Robert Sibbald
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 75-76



Original Page



Transcription

Sibbald has entrusted a friend in London to show Sloane a catalogue of his books he is selling. He asks that Sloane let him know which books he would like to buy and for what price. The bearer is Mr Gulon. Sibbald was a physician and a geographer. He was physician to James VII (Charles W. J. Withers, Sibbald, Sir Robert (16411722), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25496, accessed 19 June 2013]).




Patient Details