William Derham to Hans Sloane – February 2, 1707/08
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Date: February 2, 1707/08 Author: William Derham Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041 Folio: ff. 99-100
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English
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British Library, London
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Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society, Scholarship, Scientific
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Italian, Physics, Sound, Translation, Weather
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February 2, 1707/08
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Upminster
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[fol. 99] Sr Febr 2 1707/8 I have sent you my Observations about Sounds; which as it hath cost me some pains, so I hope will be acceptable to you, & the most illustrious Society. If you think it worth publishing in the Transactions, I desire you will be pleased to put it into one of the next, that I may have it as soon as may be, to send to his Excellency the Envoy at Florence, my answer to his last kind Packet, wch I also have sent you inclosed, viz a Lr to me from his Excellencey, & two Papers in Italian. I desire the favour of you to keep these three Papers for me, & to return them me again again when I see you next, because I intend to insert what is materi- al in them in my Observations of the Weather &c of 1707. If you have the Italian Papers translated I will desire The favour of the use of them with my own: the Italian Language being out of my way. I am now from home at a friends House, & therefore have not time to say more only that I am with greatest respect Sr Your much obliged humble servant W Derham
Derham was a Church of England clergyman and a natural philosopher, interested in nature, mathematics, and philosophy. He frequently requested medical advice from Sloane, and likely served as a physician to his family and parishioners (Marja Smolenaars, “Derham, William (1657-1735)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7528, accessed 7 June 2011]).
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