Letter 1741

Robert Sibbald to Hans Sloane – April 7, 1711


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Date: April 7, 1711
Author: Robert Sibbald
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 271-272



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Sibbald sends a list of books he is interested in purchasing. Archibald Betson is the bearer. Sibbald did not receive Warner’s natural historical book, which Sloane was supposed to have sent. He asks for back issues of the Philosophical Transactions. Sir Robert 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 3 June 2011]).




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