Letter 1756

Massey informs Sloane that John Kelsall will be in London. He asks Sloane to pay Kelsall a visit and offer his medical opinion. Kelsall was a Quaker minister and diarist who wrote predominantly on religious matters (Richard C. Allen, Kelsall, John (16831743), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/61965, accessed 9 June 2011]). Richard Middleton Massey (1678-1743) attended Brasenose College, Oxford but left before obtaining a degree. In 1706 he was admitted Extra-Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and settled in Wisbech where he practiced medicine. Massey was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1712. He compiled the catalogue of the library of the Royal College of Physicians in 1727 (http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/2969).