Samuel Dale to Hans Sloane – May 13, 1709
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Date: May 13, 1709 Author: Samuel Dale Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041 Folio: f. 329
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English
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British Library, London
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Collections, Library
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Books, Botany, Entomology, Insects, Specimens
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May 13, 1709
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Braintree
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John Ray John Thorpe
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Dale intends to send some insects the coming week. He will return the books he borrowed at the same time. He inquires about a number of botanical texts, which he hopes Sloane will be able to lend him. Samuel Dale was an apothecary, botanist, and physician who contributed several articles to the Philosophical Transactions. He was John Ray’s executor and good friend, and from Dale’s letters to Sloane we learn many details of Ray’s final moments (G. S. Boulger, Dale, Samuel (bap. 1659, d. 1739), rev. Juanita Burnby, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7016, accessed 5 July 2013]).
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