Letter 2555

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John Woodward to Hans Sloane – February 14, 1721/22


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Date: February 14, 1721/22
Author: John Woodward
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: f. 206


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[fol. 206] Gr. Coll. 14. Feb. 1721[/22]. Sr I’m sorry that I must excuse my self from waiting upon you at ye College to Day. I happen to have Business that will not permitt it. I hope you had Dr. Dridiers 2d Papers, by Dr. Egerland. Those I formerly communicated to you are since printed, as I suppose these will be, in ye Journ. des Scavans[.] I have made Mr. Woolhouse very sensible of your Curiosityes to Him: & sent Geo. Valla. I believe [they] will have ye 2 Books wch you want thence, so soon as I hear ye success of his searches, you shall be sure to know it. Pray leave out Cardinal Guastallas Book of ye Plague, I am S.r your very faithfull humble serv.t Woodward At y.r Leisure, if you will send me a Catalogue of all ye Books you have about ye Eyes, you will much oblige Mr. Woolhouse, who is putting out a Bibliotheca of those Authors.

Woodward was a physician, natural historian and antiquary who expounded a theory of the earth in which fossils were creatures destroyed by the biblical flood. This embroiled him in a controversy in which he was opposed by John Ray, Edward Llwyd, Martin Lister, and Tancred Robinson (J. M. Levine, Woodward, John (1665/16681728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29946, accessed 17 June 2011]).



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