Letter 2795

Tancred Robinson to Hans Sloane – July 19, 1701


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Date: July 19, 1701
Author: Tancred Robinson
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: f. 192



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[fol. 192] Norfolk Street July 19-1701 If nothing calls you out on[…] -day morning I propose to myself [the] happiness of kissing your hand at[…] Cross in Alders-gate Street between [9] and 10 a clock for one hour, which I shall value as one of the most precious portions of my life, being Sr Yours Tancred Robinson

Robinson was a naturalist, physician, and fellow of the Royal College of Physicians from 1685. He was appointed physician-in-ordinary to King George I 1714 (G. S. Boulger, Robinson, Sir Tancred (1657/81748), rev. Kaye Bagshaw, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23873, accessed 26 June 2013]).




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