Patrick Blair to Hans Sloane – May 9, 1709
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Date: May 9, 1709 Author: Patrick Blair Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041 Folio: ff. 321-322
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English
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British Library, London
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Patronage, Scholarship, Scientific
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Elephants, Publishing, Recommendations
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May 9, 1709
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Dundee
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Charles White
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Blair discusses his treatise on Elephants. He asks for Sloane’s recommendation and help in organizing its publication. Blair explains that he does not know when the ship will leave. He recommends the bearer, Charles White. 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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