Charles Preston to Hans Sloane – April 10, 1698
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Date: April 10, 1698 Author: Charles Preston Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037 Folio: ff. 52-53
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English
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British Library, London
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Scholarship, Social
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Books, Curiosities
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April 10, 1698
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Ede [Edinburgh]
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Sir Robert Sibbald
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Preston thanks Sloane for his last letter. He writes of Dr Sibbald delivering the letter and a book to Sloane and promises to send some curiosities. Preston was a physician and botanist who established a lengthy correspondence with Sloane, exchanging plants, seeds, books and information. His main interest was in botany, and was well-known by his contemporaries for his botanical knowledge (Anita Guerrini, Preston, Charles (16601711), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47084, accessed 18 June 2013]).
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