Letter 3826

Rose Fuller to Hans Sloane – September 27, 1730


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Date: September 27, 1730
Author: Rose Fuller
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4051
Folio: ff. 113-114



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[fol. 113] Paris Sept. 27 N.S. 1730 au Caffé de Baptist rue de la comedie Francoise Hon’red Sr The Letter of recommendation you did me the honour to send me for Mr, Jussieu, I have since my arrival here delivered to him, he received me very civilly, and was mightily pleased as he told me to hear of ye welfare of so good a freind; he promised me all the service he cou’d do me both by advice and his own instruction, and desired I wou’d often come to see him; he has a brother too, who is a mighty good sort of man, wth whom I am to goe to day or to morrow to see the Physick garden and some other curiosities. Mr, Jussieu desired I cou’d send you his best respects, which together wth mine I beg you wou’d accept from Hon’red Sr your most dutifull Grandson and most obliged humble servt Rose Fuller

Rose Fuller (1708-1777) was a politician, gun-founder and landowner. He was Sir Hans Sloane’s grandson. Fuller studied medicine at Cambridge from 1725 to 1728 and Leiden from 1729 to 1732 and went to Jamaica in 1733 to supervise the family estates. He served in the Jamaican assembly for some time before returning to England in 1755. Fuller was elected MP for Rye in 1768 (J. S. Hodgkinson, ‘Fuller family (per. c.1650–1803)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47494, accessed 14 Aug 2014]).




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