Patrick Blair to Hans Sloane – February 23, 1710
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Date: February 23, 1710 Author: Patrick Blair Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042 Folio: ff. 103-104
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English
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British Library, London
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Patronage, Travel
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Jamaica, Pharmacology, Recommendations, Surgery
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February 23, 1710
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Dundee
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William Christy
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[fol. 103] Sr Dundee Febry 23 1710 May I presume to crave the addition of one favour to the many unspeakable ones I have wanted from you on behalf of Mr William Christy bearer here of my own nephew who having been sometimes with me now gone abroad in order to prosecute the studys of pharmacy and surgery I pretend to give no other Character of him than that Im very hopefull he shall prove worthy of whatever recommendations you shall be pleasd to bestow upon him His design is either to take the first opportunity of going into the sea service or setting out for Jamaica if a convenient occasion offer and if in any of these you shall be assisting to him it shall be most greatfully resented by Your most obliged and most obedient humble servant Pa. Blair
Patrick Blair was a botanist and surgeon whose papers were published in the Transactions. In 1715 Blair joined the Jacobite rebellion as a battle surgeon but was captured and condemned to death. He was visited by Sloane in prison in the hopes the latter might secure a pardon. Sloane was successful and the pardon arrived shortly before Blair’s scheduled execution (Anita Guerrini, Blair, Patrick (c.16801728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2568, accessed 31 May 2011]).
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