Letter 2144

James Yonge to Hans Sloane – March 23, 1717


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Date: March 23, 1717
Author: James Yonge
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 275-276



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Yonge wants to know how Lady Copley is doing. He thanks Sloane for a book and the ‘kind present of Cyprianus Epistlei’. He sends his regards to the Royal Society. James Yonge was a surgeon and physician of Plymouth with experience as a ship’s surgeon. He was a prominent citizen in his native Plymouth and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1702 (Ian Lyle, Yonge, James (16471721), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30225, accessed 20 May 2011]).




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