Patrick Blair to Hans Sloane – March 31, 1712
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Date: March 31, 1712 Author: Patrick Blair Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043 Folio: f. 36
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English
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British Library, London
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Scholarship, Trade or Commodities
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Elephants, Publishing
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March 31, 1712
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Coupar-Angus
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John Hill
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Blair informs Sloane that he would be pleased to receive ‘what further Copies of the Treatise of the Elephant you shall be pleased to send besides those I desired in my last’. John Hill, a friend, is the bearer. Patrick Blair was a botanist and surgeon whose papers were published in the Transactions. In 1715 Blair joined the Jacobite rebellion as a battle surgeon but was captured and condemned to death. He was visited by Sloane in prison in the hopes the latter might secure a pardon. Sloane was successful and the pardon arrived shortly before Blair’s scheduled execution (Anita Guerrini, Blair, Patrick (c.16801728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2568, accessed 31 May 2011]).
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