Letter 1641

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James Sherard to Hans Sloane – November 8, 1709


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Date: November 8, 1709
Author: James Sherard
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: f. 65


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[fol. 65] Sr My Brother Consil Sherard desires me to send some books to Mr Stuart in Jamaica amongst which are Hermanni Parad. Balavus, & Hernandez both which he says you will furnish me with, I have now an opportunity of sending them to Jamaica, there-fore beg you’l please to let me have them at your first leisure. I am SR your most obliged serv’t James Sherard Novemb’r 8 1709 Mr Stuart desires also your History of Jamaica if finished, I am directed to get the [?] first vol of Mr Ray’s Histor plant. at mr Batemans but he cant furnish me with them I hope if you have any further occasion for Mr Rays last volume you’l please to remeber th[…] I have to dispose of for my Brother.

James Sherard (1666-1738) apprenticed as an apothecary to Charles Watts. He practiced as an apothecary in Mark Lane, London and retired in 1720. Sherard was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1706. In his retirement he pursued the collection of rare plants and became a well known botanist, though not as well known as his brother William Sherard (FRS 1720). James Sherard spent the 1720s travelling and collecting specimens by 1730 was managing the Chelsea Gardens. (W. W. Webb, ‘Sherard, James (1666–1738)’, rev. Scott Mandelbrote, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2013 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25354, accessed 16 June 2015]).



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