Letter 2732

William Derham to Hans Sloane – n.d.


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Date: n.d.
Author: William Derham
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4058
Folio: f. 212



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Fol. 212 [Not Dated] Sr Mr Innys will tell you wt I desire you to do to this copy, wch I got up at five 18 finished this morning. I have only done the figured Fishes, & omitted the others, wch I think had better be not mentioned wth the rest, because Mr Iago saith they were written in hast & promises a fuller acct of them. If you would have them added be pleased to send me word next monday, & it shall be done by (in greatest hast by my scribble) Sr Yours &c W.D.

Derham was a Church of England clergyman and a natural philosopher, interested in nature, mathematics, and philosophy. He frequently requested medical advice from Sloane, and likely served as a physician to his family and parishioners (Marja Smolenaars, Derham, William (16571735), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7528, accessed 7 June 2011]).




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