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Letter 1058

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William Sherard to Hans Sloane – June 29, 1706


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Date: June 29, 1706
Author: William Sherard
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 187-188


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[fol. 187] Dear Sr. I did not receive yrs of 15th Novr till ye 11th of may by ye King William by whom I send this. I return you hearty thanks for ye trouble about my books, as also for those you sent me, wch were last by ye death of ye purser to whose care they were comitted, only the Transactions were sav’d, for want of convenience of sending them. I have here Lauibaiy Belliantheca, wch I find wants 2 sheets of ye eight vol. I have writ to Vienna after them ye buying it on Mr Bridges acct. if so much money left to me as it cost at Sept, wch woud soon have doubled in this country. I have half a dozen more from Italy, bought at his request, but shall keep them least they may not prove to his liking. I am not sorry to see such a value set on Dr. Cundas’s collection, but am glad you had them not. Dr Scheutzer writes often to me & has sent me most of ye plants he found in his jorneys; he is pretty exact, but not free from mistakes in his names. I have most of my books here & expect ye rest by ye first ships, at least I have sufficient here to imploy me till ye rest come & I loose no time in entering them in my Pinax. Dr Plukenet & Mr Petiver will puzzle me more than all ye rest; but I shall not pretend to adjust their synonyma ’till I return. The plague has been very hot here near six weeks, but ye time of its decreasing is now come, what wth yt & o’r ships being in port. I have not been able to collect any thing this season, but next week will [?] it ye mountains in order to gather some seeds for ye ships in autumn. [fol.187v] last summer I made a jouney to the seven churches of Asia, in Augst & septr. I gather’d severall new seeds, ye season for plants being almost past; but ye greatest fruit of this excursion; was ye visiting Gayra (Aphrodisias of ye axteants) where we copyed near an hundred Greek inscriptions & twice that number in all. I design’d this summer for the Halicarnasso, milato, melazzo & so anlong ye thainr to Calophon but cannot take up a company sufficient to defend us from danger. next year I hope I shall. what inscriptions are dug up here I lay, & shall send home assoon as we have a peace. nothing has made me more uneasy in this country, then the finding my self incapable of serving my Ld Pembroke, as I hap’d & expected to have done. I have neglected no opportunity of buying what medalls presented here & have writ to all ye places where I cou’d fix any corrispondence in order to procure them, & yet after above two years search have met but wth two of his nota. Dr Picanini who is gone for Engld by way of legorn, will wait upon you, & justify what I write. he is in company of Mr. Purnell & Gent’n of their factory, who will be glad to wait on my Ld & shew him what medalls he has pick’d up here, in about 20 years. I have seen them & cannot guess they are worth in any part of Europe, ye quarter they cost here. I can’t pretend any skill my self, but I hereby me most of ye books necessary for ye understanding them; merchts have ye same notion of them yt ye Turks have yt they are all jewells. I writ to you last year for a Barometer, pray lend me one & take the cost of it of my Brother; a Thermometer as a set of glasses for knowing the strength of liquors wou’d be of use to me. Pra Boccona before death sent me his dry’d plants wth a MSS. wch he desird me to get printed, but ’tis not worth ye while ye plants are ye same nam’d in ye inclos’d Catalogue, wch are describd after his way in ye manuscript, wch along farrago of receipts &c. I hear not a word of ye History of Jamaica, pray don’t defer it; ye longer you stay, ye more business will crowd upon you. I have sent over ye last vol. I have of ye Philos. Transactions, wch end 1688 no. 247. & desir’d Mr. Bateman to compleat them & get them bound like ye rest I find in ye Historia literaria maris Balthici, Matth. Hanrici schacht observationes Botanica de plantis circa Cartemundam spontanascenticus. 4. if it be in London, pray send. it I shou’d be glad to know how Dr Raddock proceeds wth his work in folio. whether Dr. Plukunet designs any other volume & what hopes of Mr Doody. My humble service to yr good Lady & family, wth friends at ye club [?] &c. wth great report & good wil [?] I remain Dear sr. yr most faithful & most obliged humble serv’t. WSherard Smirna June 29th 1706. Pray is Parera brava Bouthona ou Mentrocy Brasil. racine diuretique mention’d in ye [?] in use in England?

Sherard (1659-1728) was a botanist and cataloguer. He worked for the Turkish Company at Smyrna where he collected botanical specimens and antiques (D. E. Allen, Sherard, William (16591728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography).



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Letter 2518

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Richard Richardson to Hans Sloane – November 4, 1721


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Date: November 4, 1721
Author: Richard Richardson
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 144-145


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[fol. 145] Hon:d Sir I deferred making my returne to your last obliging letter till I could give you some satisfactory account of the malignant Fevere which has been so fatall in this place which is now very much abated, not above three or fouer persons are dead of it since my last, & all of them old persons; it has of late appeared to be of the intermitting kind in some a regulare tertion & in others a double tertion when it showd it selfe of this kind I was in hopes that the Bark might have been of very great use, but upon repeated trials I found it did not answer my expectation without the addition of Alexapharmick & these alone were of more service; those yt perspired pretty freely recovered the best; one thing I generally observed that the sweat of these persons had an usuall suffocalinty smel, I was desired to visit a neighboure who was seized with a paralytic motion in his left side I found upon in: :quiry that this reaction was periodical & had returned about twelve o clock for three or fouer days swieffively, & continued about two houres in each pmaxyme; by the use of alexapharmaticks he is now recoverd, though the fits continued upon him about fourteen days. I was shown a poor man in Bradford by an Apothecarry there, who in his fitts had such indent motions in his leggs & armes that (dark) the bent of the skin from his leggs & ellbows, & was forced to (^) his lyed sown in his bed though at the same time he was perfectly sensible. I ordered him to be blushed in severall places & by the use of Alex: :apharmatick is in a prossessing was of recovery. Woodcocks are come to as trip year sooner then usuall; perhaps you may not have them yet in the fourth in plenty, which makes me take the freedome to send you a pott of them on Wednesday last by Tho: Fenton a Bradford Carrier. Fol. 145v that they came to you safe & in good order wil be very velu[…] accounts to Hon’d Sr Ric: Richardson North Bierley Nov: 4th 1721

Richardson was a physician and botanist who traveled widely in England, Wales, and Scotland in search of rare specimens. He corresponded and exchanged plants with many well-known botanists and naturalists (W. P. Courtney, Richardson, Richard (16631741), rev. Peter Davis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23576, accessed 31 May 2011]).



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Letter 2519

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Richard Richardson to Hans Sloane – November 4, 1721


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Date: November 4, 1721
Author: Richard Richardson
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 144-145


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[fol. 145] Hon:d Sir I deferred making my returne to your last obliging letter till I could give you some satisfactory account of the malignant Fevere which has been so fatall in this place which is now very much abated, not above three or fouer persons are dead of it since my last, & all of them old persons; it has of late appeared to be of the intermitting kind in some a regulare tertion & in others a double tertion when it showd it selfe of this kind I was in hopes that the Bark might have been of very great use, but upon repeated trials I found it did not answer my expectation without the addition of Alexapharmick & these alone were of more service; those yt perspired pretty freely recovered the best; one thing I generally observed that the sweat of these persons had an usuall suffocalinty smel, I was desired to visit a neighboure who was seized with a paralytic motion in his left side I found upon in: :quiry that this reaction was periodical & had returned about twelve o clock for three or fouer days swieffively, & continued about two houres in each pmaxyme; by the use of alexapharmaticks he is now recoverd, though the fits continued upon him about fourteen days. I was shown a poor man in Bradford by an Apothecarry there, who in his fitts had such indent motions in his leggs & armes that (dark) the bent of the skin from his leggs & ellbows, & was forced to (^) his lyed sown in his bed though at the same time he was perfectly sensible. I ordered him to be blushed in severall places & by the use of Alex: :apharmatick is in a prossessing was of recovery. Woodcocks are come to as trip year sooner then usuall; perhaps you may not have them yet in the fourth in plenty, which makes me take the freedome to send you a pott of them on Wednesday last by Tho: Fenton a Bradford Carrier. Fol. 145v that they came to you safe & in good order wil be very velu[…] accounts to Hon’d Sr Ric: Richardson North Bierley Nov: 4th 1721

Richardson was a physician and botanist who traveled widely in England, Wales, and Scotland in search of rare specimens. He corresponded and exchanged plants with many well-known botanists and naturalists (W. P. Courtney, Richardson, Richard (16631741), rev. Peter Davis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23576, accessed 31 May 2011]).



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Letter 2520

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Richard Richardson to Hans Sloane – November 4, 1721


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Date: November 4, 1721
Author: Richard Richardson
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 144-145


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[fol. 145] Hon:d Sir I deferred making my returne to your last obliging letter till I could give you some satisfactory account of the malignant Fevere which has been so fatall in this place which is now very much abated, not above three or fouer persons are dead of it since my last, & all of them old persons; it has of late appeared to be of the intermitting kind in some a regulare tertion & in others a double tertion when it showd it selfe of this kind I was in hopes that the Bark might have been of very great use, but upon repeated trials I found it did not answer my expectation without the addition of Alexapharmick & these alone were of more service; those yt perspired pretty freely recovered the best; one thing I generally observed that the sweat of these persons had an usuall suffocalinty smel, I was desired to visit a neighboure who was seized with a paralytic motion in his left side I found upon in: :quiry that this reaction was periodical & had returned about twelve o clock for three or fouer days swieffively, & continued about two houres in each pmaxyme; by the use of alexapharmaticks he is now recoverd, though the fits continued upon him about fourteen days. I was shown a poor man in Bradford by an Apothecarry there, who in his fitts had such indent motions in his leggs & armes that (dark) the bent of the skin from his leggs & ellbows, & was forced to (^) his lyed sown in his bed though at the same time he was perfectly sensible. I ordered him to be blushed in severall places & by the use of Alex: :apharmatick is in a prossessing was of recovery. Woodcocks are come to as trip year sooner then usuall; perhaps you may not have them yet in the fourth in plenty, which makes me take the freedome to send you a pott of them on Wednesday last by Tho: Fenton a Bradford Carrier. Fol. 145v that they came to you safe & in good order wil be very velu[…] accounts to Hon’d Sr Ric: Richardson North Bierley Nov: 4th 1721

Richardson was a physician and botanist who traveled widely in England, Wales, and Scotland in search of rare specimens. He corresponded and exchanged plants with many well-known botanists and naturalists (W. P. Courtney, Richardson, Richard (16631741), rev. Peter Davis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23576, accessed 31 May 2011]).



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    The man is from Bradbury and was visited by an apothecary. He had 'violent motions in his leggs and armes'. The man was bedridden.

  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
    Previous Treatment:

    Richardson had the man 'blistred in several places' and prescribed 'Alexapharmicks'.


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    Response:

    The man is recovering.

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    Convulsions, Fevers, Convulsions

Letter 2517

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Richard Richardson to Hans Sloane – November 4, 1721


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Date: November 4, 1721
Author: Richard Richardson
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 144-145


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[fol. 145] Hon:d Sir I deferred making my returne to your last obliging letter till I could give you some satisfactory account of the malignant Fevere which has been so fatall in this place which is now very much abated, not above three or fouer persons are dead of it since my last, & all of them old persons; it has of late appeared to be of the intermitting kind in some a regulare tertion & in others a double tertion when it showd it selfe of this kind I was in hopes that the Bark might have been of very great use, but upon repeated trials I found it did not answer my expectation without the addition of Alexapharmick & these alone were of more service; those yt perspired pretty freely recovered the best; one thing I generally observed that the sweat of these persons had an usuall suffocalinty smel, I was desired to visit a neighboure who was seized with a paralytic motion in his left side I found upon in: :quiry that this reaction was periodical & had returned about twelve o clock for three or fouer days swieffively, & continued about two houres in each pmaxyme; by the use of alexapharmaticks he is now recoverd, though the fits continued upon him about fourteen days. I was shown a poor man in Bradford by an Apothecarry there, who in his fitts had such indent motions in his leggs & armes that (dark) the bent of the skin from his leggs & ellbows, & was forced to (^) his lyed sown in his bed though at the same time he was perfectly sensible. I ordered him to be blushed in severall places & by the use of Alex: :apharmatick is in a prossessing was of recovery. Woodcocks are come to as trip year sooner then usuall; perhaps you may not have them yet in the fourth in plenty, which makes me take the freedome to send you a pott of them on Wednesday last by Tho: Fenton a Bradford Carrier. Fol. 145v that they came to you safe & in good order wil be very velu[…] accounts to Hon’d Sr Ric: Richardson North Bierley Nov: 4th 1721

Richardson was a physician and botanist who traveled widely in England, Wales, and Scotland in search of rare specimens. He corresponded and exchanged plants with many well-known botanists and naturalists (W. P. Courtney, Richardson, Richard (16631741), rev. Peter Davis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23576, accessed 31 May 2011]).



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    Name: N/A Neighbor
    Gender:
    Age:
  • Description

    The man is from Bradbury and was visited by an apothecary. He had 'violent motions in his leggs and armes'. The man was bedridden.

  • Diagnosis
  • Treatment
    Previous Treatment:

    Richardson had the man 'blistred in several places' and prescribed 'Alexapharmicks'.


    Ongoing Treatment:
    Response:

    The man is recovering.

  • More information
  • Medical problem reference
    Convulsions, Fevers, Convulsions

Letter 4559

Posted on February 23, 2019 by -

Dr. Hans Sloane to Mr. John Ray – Sept. 11, 1696.


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Date: Sept. 11, 1696.
Author: Dr. Hans Sloane
Recipient: Mr. John Ray

Library: The Correspondence of John Ray: Consisting of Selections from the Philosophical Letters Published by Dr. Derham, and original letters of John Ray in the Collection of the British Museum (London: Printed for the Ray Society, 1848)
Manuscript: The Correspondence of John Ray: Consisting of Selections from the Philosophical Letters Published by Dr. Derham, and original letters of John Ray in the Collection of the British Museum (London: Printed for the Ray Society, 1848)
Folio: p. 306


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SIR, – I have received, after much search, three sorts

of beans from the north-west islands of Scotland, which are thrown up by the sea from the north-west great ocean, and gathered in plenty on those north-west shores, and are such as grow in Jamaica, viz. the bean called there cocoons, that called horse-eye bean, and the ash- coloured nickar, or bonduch. You will find them all in my Catalogue, under those vulgar names, by the index; there is also a fourth sent me thence, which is, I think, the Avellana quadrifida, J. B. Where its natural place is I know not; but the others you may find their countries by the authors which I speak of them, for they must come to Scotland by the currents of the sea. I have heard of some thrown up in England, and should be glad to have your thoughts of this matter. The small coral in Fal- mouth Road you may see I found in England, and had it from the Magellan Straits. I beg your pardon for this trouble.

London, Sept. 11, 1696.

Edwin Lankester, ed. The Correspondence of John Ray: Consisting of Selections from the Philosophical Letters Published by Dr. Derham, and original letters of John Ray in the Collection of the British Museum (London: Printed for the Ray Society, 1848), p. 306

Letter destination presumed as Black Notley as Ray’s location in his prior and letter and response to Sloane is Black Notley. Ray was also considered not to have left Black Notley after 1679.



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Letter 0455

Posted on August 2, 2016 by -

William Sherard to Hans Sloane – July 16, 1697


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Date: July 16, 1697
Author: William Sherard
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 333-334


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[fol. 333] Dear Sr. I am extreamly oblig’d to you for yr kind letter of ye 18th past & for yr [?] to Mrs Bulifon, they have been to thank me for my recomendations & I hope they will be serviceable to you at their return. As to what you mention of books I have so few besides for my own diversion yt its not worth while to send you a Catalogue, what there is in double you may comand, but ye Prima Della Catholica has had most of them in Botany, from you whom I have to comision to buy all I can lay hands on, & I am willing to spur him on to that study. besides ye Catalogue of his garden printed last year he has above 600 plants graced towards Panphyton diculum, wch I hope shortly to see. had I known what you wanted in voyages whilst in Italy I coud probably have added some to yr numerous & curious collection, having seen severall on yt subject in Italien, Spanish & Portuguese. As to plants I have few in double, having track’d in all places I have found opportunity & made severall presents in hopes of returns; besides the trouble of carriage has very much discouragd me in yt affair I design what I have wth my fruits seeds & books for a publick yse. it is not worth while to think of selling them, nobody will pay ye trouble much less ye charges wch have been considerable had I such thoughts I coud find ten times more for them in this country then in Engld where exoticks bear an extravagant rate. I hear from Mr Bobert yt father Boccones new book is expected from Dantsick; had not I subscribd for 50 copies & furnishd him part of ye money before hand it had not been printed, [?] desire by yr means those of my friends that are not very much pressd to stay till mine arrive, wch I hope will be as soon as those from Dantsick; tis a trick ye father has put upon me after having promised not to send any hither or into Engld he promis’d not to send any hither or into Engld he promised also not to print more then 250 copies but I hear from a freind at venice he has drawn of 400. I had a letter lately from Dr Tournefort who is very busy abt ye traduction of his Elements 2 vol. in 4 to wch he promises me as soon as finishd… Catalogue of ye garden of Montpellier by Mr Magnol as soon as he has finishd this he will print his voyages & then think of others. take this paragraphe of his letter: je viens de recevoir une petite dissertation de Mr Rai qui n’est pas de mon sentiment sur bien de choses. j’espere qu’il sera plus satisfait de l’edition latine, et je me rejouis de ce qu’il ne m’a pas fait de plus fortes objections. Pray any service to Dr. Robinson w’n you see him, if he remembers in what garden he gather’d ye Abies pinum referens &c Plukenet he would oblige me to let me know, I can hear nothing of it here, neither do I find his other Abies fol. subtus viridibus wch ye Dr says is as comon as ye other in ye gardens of Holland. I writ to Mr Petiver some time since about some books, but have not yet heard from him, pray my service to him I should be glad to have an Answer at his leisure. if you have occasion [fol. 334] of Muntings new edition in folio: Historia et Icones Plant. rariones Hort Aursterodad comelini or Dodart memoires in fol. 1676 (for wch Liers asks 50 Gelders) let me know, I shall have occasion of buying 4 of each & perhaps by yt means may have them some thing cheaper then ordinary. if I can serve here you know how to direct & I hope you’ll take ye same freedom with me yt I do wth you on all occasions Il’ll assure you none is more entirely than I yr most faithfull oblig’d serv’t W.Sherard Hague 16th July 97

Sherard discusses an exchange of botanical books and various developments in the field of botany. A note in Sloane’s hand reads: ‘July 21. 1697. This letter was left at my house yesterday morning as my man tells me & had been opened Hans Sloane’.

Sherard was a botanist and cataloguer. He worked for the Turkish Company at Smyrna where he collected botanical specimens and antiques (D. E. Allen, ‘Sherard, William (1659–1728)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25355, accessed 24 June 2011]).



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Letter 3821

Posted on August 2, 2016 by -

Richard Richardson to Hans Sloane – Sept 5, 1733


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Date: Sept 5, 1733
Author: Richard Richardson
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4053
Folio: f. 39


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MS 4053 Fol. 39 Hon ed Sr North Bierley Sept 5 1733 I ought to have returned yu thankes sooner for ye favoure of yr letter but being obliged to attend a family in the small pox nigh 20 miles from this place I was detained there three weeks when I was not in the least fit for such a journey having not yet shaked of my last winters imposition wich has left such a wea(k)ness in my (l)egs & feet that stirring abroad is very troublesome to me at my returne I found ye kind present of Bookes for which & all other yr former favours I must always pain in great obligations to you, but I have not yet had time carefull to peruse them ffully a trans silnt sieve Mr Sincher Booke de stelly marina seems to be a Curiouse & elaborate performance I have often wondered (how) ^why some of our late naturelists who acknowledge most of the formed stones to be of marine original should Exclude Belammite etys affines from that clame since upon several of them their remains of the (?) which they were formed does manifest by appear & I thinke Brennius & some others of the curiouse in the worth have cleared this point beyond contradiction ] Mr Brewer I met with not long agoe he still keeps adding to his collection of na: :turel Curiositys he is much obliged to yu for promoting all useful knowledge for patrons in this way are very rare by others; [ I have met with very litle of late in nat: History worth mentioning to you one thing I cannot (?) which I do not remember is taken notice of by (?) nature that is the great distruction that is made amongst the small (?) of Fish by the spuilla agnd dulis which abound in most standing waters in a small breeding pond nigh my house where I had formerly plenty of small carp & Tench every year & (?) late scar Fol. 39v any young breed to be not with my gardiner not long agoe observed an of the Squilla with a carp in it’s mouth, a brest as large as it selfe & has since observed these Insects nesting amongst the wells & ingourous persuing the small (?) I ordrd the Gardiner to catch some of these Insects being then some alive with some of the smallest fish he could meet with, we put them together in a large Basin of water the Insects were so ranceiouse that they fell upon the fish immediately & destroyed several in my sigh & before morning had devourd all that were in the portion] if any thing occur to me which I thinke worth communicating to yu yu shall certainly hear from me with repeated thanks to all yr Civilitys to me & hearty wishes for yr health & long life your much obliged servant Ric: Richardson I have heard nothing latly from Dr Mortimer goes on with Dr Kempfers travils into Tartare &c I subscribed for Sr I: Kane & my selfe to Dr Scheuzer & sent the Subscription in only to Mr Miller who I should be glad to serve with any thing in my power.

Richardson was a physician and botanist who traveled widely in England, Wales, and Scotland in search of rare specimens. He corresponded and exchanged plants with many well-known botanists and naturalists (W. P. Courtney, Richardson, Richard (16631741), rev. Peter Davis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23576, accessed 31 May 2011]).



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Beginnings and Endings: History Carnival 150

Posted on October 1, 2015 by - Blog Round-up

It’s been one month since I started my new job at the University of Essex. Settling in has been a busy and fun process. The moving company now tells me that my boxes should be in England by the weekend. One month and a new start in life has simply become life… Being in a reflective state of mind, I’ve chosen to focus this month’s History Carnival on the theme of beginnings and endings.

Students'_Union,_University_of_Essex,_across_Square_3

Let us begin, then, with a voyage. Over at Halley’s Log, Kate Morant has started blogging Edmond Halley’s third voyage on the Paramour (1701), this time to observe the tides in the English Channel–and maybe do some spying.

The ultimate traveller just might be Morrissey… or Richard III… who appears to have been doing some time travel. This is possibly my favourite tweet of the month. (Well, it’s technically from October rather than September, but it arrived just as I was writing this post.)

https://twitter.com/PhD_Angela/status/649535711578877952?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

And there is a great introduction to the artist Sonia Delaunay over at Art and Architecture, mainly where we learn about how she began a new life in a new city and took up new ways of doing art.

A big welcome to Sheilagh O’Brien who has just started blogging at Enchanted History! Her first post on marriage to the Devil couldn’t be timed more perfectly, being on the Essex witch trials and mentioning–of course–Colchester. There is more witchy history over at The Witch, the Weird and the Wonderful, where HJ Blenkinsop considers how the black cat became the witch’s familiar.

Jan van de Velde, 1626. A witch at her cauldron surrounded by beasts. Credit: Wellcome Library, London.

Jan van de Velde, 1626. A witch at her cauldron surrounded by beasts. Credit: Wellcome Library, London.

A cracking criminal tale from Catherine Curzon at A Covent Gardern Gilfurt’s Guide to Life. In 1807, Strasbourg residents were being subjected to a new and elaborate con in which a gang of thieves played the roles of exorcist, devil and prophetess to dupe their victims.

Where there are thieves, there must be those who pursue them. Margaret Makepeace at Untold Lives tells us the story of the Metropolitan Police’s first-ever day on the job… that came complete with a review of their performance in the Morning Post the day after!

There are some great posts from historians reflecting on the profession and practice of doing history. Brodie Waddell at The Many-Headed Monster has a series of posts considering what problems exist in the history profession–specifically about training doctoral students and the casualisation of labour. In this post, he has “Seven Practical Steps” for what we can do to improve it.

Johann Staininger, a man with a very long beard. Credit: Wellcome Library, London.

Johann Staininger, a man with a very long beard. Credit: Wellcome Library, London.

It’s not all doom and gloom, of course. Sometimes it’s a bit fuzzy. Congratulations to Alun Withey who has just launched his new project on beards in history, which he introduces over here.

From Victorians’ facial hair, it is but a short hop to Jacob Steere-Williams’ post at Renaissance Mathematicus, in which he critiques the “privileged hipsters living the solipsist dream of a phantasmagorical Victorian world in the twenty-first century.”

Steere-Williams argues that simply wearing nineteenth-century clothes and using nineteenth-century technology is an insufficient–even dangerous–start to understanding Victorian experience. This is “far from an inocuous appropriation of powerless objects from the past. There is a very real danger in a cherry-picked, tunnel-vision of history, one that ignores power, inequality, racism and privilege.”

Along the same lines, Matt Champion’s evocative post at the Norfolk Medieval Graffiti Survey points out that

it isn’t enough to simply record what we find on the walls. It is a start. No more than that. The key though has to be understanding what we are seeing. To try and find our way into the mindset and motivations of the long-dead who left these tantalising messages for the future.

Silences as a way into a field of study, or a block to that study, is the theme of “The Truth about Child Sexual Assault” (1900-1950) by Mark Finnane and Yorrick Smaal at The Prosecution Project. What might be a tantalising start when studying graffiti is the frustrating (possible) end here. As Finnane and Smaal note: “The consequences of this silence continue to frustrate scholarly research.”

Henry Heath, 1841. Three dandies smoking and drinking coffee. Credit: Wellcome Library, London.

Henry Heath, 1841. Three dandies smoking and drinking coffee. Credit: Wellcome Library, London.

It is Welcome Week here at the University of Essex and my mind is filled with thoughts of the teaching to come next week. The Recipes Project has been running a great series on teaching historical recipes throughout the month of September, but let me draw your attention to Carla Cevasco’s post on “Teaching High School American History with Cookbooks“. It’s a fascinating post about introducing students to recipes for the first time, as well as the intersection of (for example) immigration policy, food cultures and anxiety.

But who needs university anyway? (Shhh. Let’s not tell the government, who is already in the process of dismantling UK academia.) Thony Christie looks at “The Penny Universities”, or how the first coffee houses in Britain became places where one could attend lectures by paying a penny–the price of a cup of coffee. While I like coffee (occasionally), I’m not sure that this would put bread on my table.

As every teacher knows, term time has its ups and downs. At some point, stimulants and tonics will be needed. D. Brooks at Friends of Schoharie Crossing takes a look at Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, good

For the cure of Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Nausea, Flatulency, Loss of Appetite, or any Bilious Complaints, arising from a morbid inaction of the Stomach or Bowels, producing Cramps, Dysentery, Colic, Cholera, Morbus, &c., these Bitters have no equal.

Pharmacy jar, used for nerve ointment, The Netherlands, 1730. Credit: Science Museum, London.

Pharmacy jar, used for nerve ointment, The Netherlands, 1730.
Credit: Science Museum, London.

And with some 47% alcohol. A better bet than (at least the initial runs of) “The Cereal Beverage” offered by the Chemung Beverage Company in 1927. Kelli Huggins (Chemung County Historical Society blog) discusses how the cereal beverage rapidly became a bit more high-powered, despite it being illegal. The “near beer” of Schenectady, as described at the Grems-Doolittle Library Collections blog, would also be a bit disappointing… Coffee it is, then. And maybe some bitters, too.

While thinking about the rhythms of the academic year, it’s worth reading this post on the traditional calendar in West Virginia by Danna Bell at the Library of Congress on “Finding Traditions: Exploring the Seasonal Round“. What is beginning now will end in only ten weeks, followed by grading, research and Christmas holidays, only to begin again in January…

And next month, there will be yet another History Carnival, this time hosted by Sharon Howard over at Early Modern Notes… so start saving up your posts, just as the West Virginians will be preserving foodstuffs. See you there!

 

 

Letter 4519

Posted on August 2, 2016 by -

Alice Brodrick to Hans Sloane – July 4, 1732


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Date: July 4, 1732
Author: Alice Brodrick
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: ff. 142-143


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[fol. 142] Sir you was so good to give me leave to trouble you with an acct of my self from hence & I can never miss any opportunity of acknowledging yr continued goodness & favours to me ever since I had first ye pleasure of being acquainted with you, I wrote about 3 lines this day sennight to Mr Ballard in wch I desir’d my compliments & that she wou’d tell you yt I intended to write to you as soon as I had seen Dr Boerhave, I have seen him & gave yr Service as you desir’d wch he recd with great pleasure I regard, & returns his Compliments, he says as to my complaint that they are uncommon but that he hopes he may help me. I began his prescriptions this morning. I was so fatigued with my voyage that I have not stirr’d any where since & indeed my pain prevents me from moving much about so that I can’t give any acct of ye place, I suppose Mr Stanley gone to Paultons byt this time. I hope La [sic] Cadogan is well & shou’d be glad to hear that ye bath agrees with Mrs Sloane as I shall always be of ye health & happiness of every one that belongs to you or for whom you have any concern, & shall never forget how greatly I am oblig’d to you nor cease to be Sir, your most Obedt & most humble servant A Brodrick Leyden July ye 4th 1732 N:S: if you do me ye favour to let me hear from you direct to me at Mr Peter Ronger’s at Leyden

Alice Brodrick (1697-1780) was the daughter of Alan Brodrick, 1st Viscount Midleton of Midleton and Lucy Courthope. She married Reverend John Castleman in 1736 (Mosley, Charles, Editor. Burke’s Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th Edition, 3 Volumes (Wilmington, Delaware: Burke’s Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 2683).



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