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Robert Sibbald to Hans Sloane – February 18, 1710
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Date: February 18, 1710
Author: Robert Sibbald
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 101-102
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The prints Sloane asked for are complete. Sibbald will dispatch them as soon as possible. Duglass’ Virgil is being printed with a ‘Learn’d Glossarie’.
Sir Robert Sibbald was a physician and a geographer. He was physician to James VII (Charles W. J. Withers, Sibbald, Sir Robert (16411722), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25496, accessed 31 May 2011]).
Posted on January 31, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -
Sir Edmund King (bap. 1630, d. 1709) was a physician and surgeon. He published some of his research in the Philosophical Transactions
Reference:
Robert L. Martensen, ‘King , Sir Edmund (bap. 1630, d. 1709)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15557, accessed 3 July 2014].
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Posted on January 31, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -
Charles Goodall was a physician, academic, and member of the Royal College of Physicians, working for the latter on occasion
Reference:
Harold J. Cook, Goodall, Charles (c.16421712), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10949, accessed 18 June 2013].
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William Derham to Hans Sloane – January 10, 1706/07
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Date: January 10, 1706/07
Author: William Derham
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 287-288
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[fol. 288]
I was lately at Orset, & find the Repairs
well done, & some holes in the Thatch of the
Barn mended. So that I believe the Houses
are all in good repair now. But your Spy
tells me yt Culverwell hath this winter carried off se-
verall Loads of Pease & Oat Straw to his o-
ther Farm of so much Dung. But how you can
tell Culverwell of this without involving our
Spy deserves consideration. If you sent your servt
thither to view the Land sowed, & to miss the Straw
yt grew thereon the thing might be done.
I have here sent you the 3 books of Mr Boyles
(wth my many thanks) wch I borrowed, & wch are all
I had except Hakewill, wch is too large to be so
soon dispatched. It shall be used wth as much safety
as if it lay in yr Library, & soon returned. I
beg the favr of you to Lend me by this Messenger Huygens, Cosmo-
theoros, having a present occasion to consult it. I could
not buy the Latin one when I was in town, else I would
not have troubled you for it new. Also I desire you to
me Cassinis Astron: Tables, put out as I take it by Mr
I hope to be able in a short time to have the pleasure of
good company at the Society; & to bring you some of my
Entertainmt there. My humble service to yr Lady. I am
Sr Your much obliged & humble servt
Jan 10 1706 W Derham.
Derham was a Church of England clergyman and a natural philosopher, interested in nature, mathematics, and philosophy. He frequently requested medical advice from Sloane, and likely served as a physician to his family and parishioners (Marja Smolenaars, “Derham, William (1657-1735)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7528, accessed 7 June 2011]).
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Howe was a physician and involved himself in the affairs of the Royal College of Physicians becoming censor in 1707
Reference:
Charles Creighton, Howe, George (1654/51710), rev. Patrick Wallis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13952, accessed 26 June 2013].
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Posted on January 31, 2017 by Amy Smith -
Thomas Archer (1668/9-1743) was an architect who was commissioned to design fifty new churches in London, Westminster, and the surrounding area in 1711. He is considered a master of English baroque architecture.
Reference
Andor Gomme, ‘Archer, Thomas (1668/9-1743)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/628 [accessed 25 June 2011]).
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Robert Sibbald to Hans Sloane – March 3, 1708
Item info
Date: March 3, 1708
Author: Robert Sibbald
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 110-111
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Sibbald will send the books Sloane commissioned. The bearer, Mr Anderson, carries a catalogue of books for Sloane to look over.
Sibbald was a physician and a geographer. He was physician to James VII (Charles W. J. Withers, Sibbald, Sir Robert (16411722), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25496, accessed 19 June 2013]).
Posted on February 13, 2017 by Amy Smith -
Abraham Meure was the son of a Huguenot schoolmaster and married Elizabeth Newdigate in 1707. Sir Hans Sloane served as physician to several members of the Newdigate family. Elizabeth died in 1710 two weeks after giving birth to their son John.
Reference:
(http://sloaneletters.com/an-eighteenth-century-love-story/ [accessed 13 February 2017).
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Posted on February 13, 2017 by Amy Smith -
Thomas Bury (bap. 1652, d. 1722) was a judge, appointed to the bench by both Queen Anne and George I. He was sympathetic to the Whigs and given the position of chief baron of the exchequer in 1716, and member of the Royal Society in 1718.
Reference:
Stuart Handley, ‘Bury, Sir Thomas (bap. 1652, d. 1722)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4155 [accessed 17 Aug 2011]).
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Posted on February 12, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -
John Hudson (1662-1719) was elected librarian of the Bodleian Library in 1701. He corresponded with numerous scholars and librarians, both in England and abroad.
Reference:
Theodor Harmsen, Hudson, John (16621719), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2013 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14034, accessed 27 June 2013].
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