Samuel Dale to Hans Sloane – October 18, 1722
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Date: October 18, 1722 Author: Samuel Dale Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046 Folio: f. 305
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British Library, London
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Patronage, Travel
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Botany, France, Medical Education, Recommendations
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October 18, 1722
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Braintree
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[fol. 305] Sr The Gentleman who brings you this having been some years at Leyden now intends shortly for France for his improvement in Physick & Botany, the favour therefore which he waites upon you for, and which I beg at your hands for him is your recommendation: and you will greatly oblidge Sr Your most humble ser’t S: Dale Braintree Oct. 18th 1722.
Samuel Dale was an apothecary, botanist, and physician who contributed several articles to the Philosophical Transactions. He was John Ray’s executor and good friend, and from Dale’s letters to Sloane we learn many details of Ray’s final moments (G. S. Boulger, Dale, Samuel (bap. 1659, d. 1739), rev. Juanita Burnby, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7016, accessed 5 July 2013]).
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