Letter 2774

Clopton Havers to Hans Sloane – October 25, 1699


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Date: October 25, 1699
Author: Clopton Havers
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: f. 348



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Havers thanks Sloane for lending him ‘ye two books I borrowed’ and requests several more, including: ‘de Pleuritude… Johannis falco, Chrishanus Acidelius, Hercules Bonacosous, Johannes franciscus Arma, Johannes flengelius, Sebastianus Meyerus. Shaddceus Drunus… Valerius Martinius, or any others’. Havers was a physician and anatomist responsible for the publication of several important anatomical books (Robert L. Martensen, Havers, Clopton (16571702), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12633, accessed 24 June 2013]).




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