Letter 1207

Robert Sibbald to Hans Sloane – March 3, 1708


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Date: March 3, 1708
Author: Robert Sibbald
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 110-111



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Sibbald will send the books Sloane commissioned. The bearer, Mr Anderson, carries a catalogue of books for Sloane to look over. 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]).




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