Letter 1307

Robert Sibbald to Hans Sloane – February 18, 1710


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Date: February 18, 1710
Author: Robert Sibbald
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 101-102



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The prints Sloane asked for are complete. Sibbald will dispatch them as soon as possible. Duglass’ Virgil is being printed with a ‘Learn’d Glossarie’. Sir Robert 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 31 May 2011]).




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