Letter 4089

Elizabeth Buddle to J. Petiver – [?] of [ye?] clock


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Date: [?] of [ye?] clock
Author: Elizabeth Buddle
Recipient: J. Petiver

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: MS 4066
Folio: f. 291



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I desire you will send by this barer Mr Buddle’s [Vosent?] of – plants & his two manacrips for he has charg’d mee to send them to Dr. Sloane, which I designe to do this day, for to my grate sorrow I find I must now say a side all hopes of his recovery, my misfortune is such that I know not into whos hands they may fall if ye [fatat?] hower is once past, I would be glad to send ye compleet Colect ion not doubting but if Mr – Petiter has aney further ocas ion Dr Sloane will not denigh ye perusall, if you have aney Books here I desire you will send for them while they are in my power for God [asoon?] know what I am to do or what to suffer, but am your destressed humble sarvant […] Buddle [Wednesday morning?] [?] of [ye?] clock

Elizabeth Buddle asks Mr. Petiver to send her husband’s “[Vosent?] of – plants & his two manacrips” so she can pass them on to Dr. Sloane. Elizabeth Buddle mentions that she “must now say a side all hopes of his [her husband’s] recovery[.]” Elizabeth Buddle was the wife of Adam Buddle (bap. 1662, d. 1715). (James Britten, ‘Buddle, Adam (bap. 1662, d. 1715)’, rev. Janet Browne, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3883, accessed 22 June 2015])




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