Letter 1621

Robert Sibbald to Hans Sloane – August 2, 1709


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Date: August 2, 1709
Author: Robert Sibbald
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 22-23



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Sibbald thanks Sloane for getting 12 people to subscribe to his book. He tells Sloane that he does not generally lend his antique books for fear of them being separated from his collection, but he may lend them to Sloane in the near future. Sibbald requests the addresses of those who ordered his book. 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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