Zabdiel Boylston to Hans Sloane – December, 1726
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Date: December, 1726 Author: Zabdiel Boylston Recipient: Hans SloaneLibrary: British Library, London Manuscript: Sloane MS 4048 Folio: f. 241
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British Library, London
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Patronage, Scholarship, Trade or Commodities
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Books, Dedication, Printing
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December, 1726
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Princess Caroline
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Boylston requests that Sloane show the attached dedication to the Princess. He is ‘almost out of patience’ waiting for his book to be published. He wants Sloane to give the order to have it printed. Zabdiel Boylston (1679-1766) was a physician famous for his inoculation of roughly 250 people during the smallpox epidemic of Boston in 1721. His method of inoculation was controversial because it was based on African practices. In 1724 Boylston traveled to London where he published the ‘Historical Account of the Small-Pox Inoculated in New England’. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1726 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zabdiel_Boylston).
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