Letter 3935

R. Fitzgerald to Hans Sloane – March 11, 1686


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Date: March 11, 1686
Author: R. Fitzgerald
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 24-25



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[fol. 24] To give you some account at present how well the experience of those who have made use of our Engins for making sea-water fresh does justify that opinion you have given of the wholsomenes of water soe prepar’d I have sent you the inlosed printed certificate of severall persons well known in this Citty who have given their Testimony upon their own Tryals. I doe not doubt but I shall receive many more of the like waters in a short time, and since they are all soe many proofs of the goodnes of your Judgm’t and of your intentions to promote the welfare of mankind I cannot but think both these and such others as may be given hereafter will be noe improper present from Sr. Your obliged & humble servant. R. Fitzgerald March ye 11th 1686

Fitzgerald claims to have created an engine that convert saltwater to freshwater.




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