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Chr Hatton to John Downes –
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Author: Chr Hatton
Recipient: John Downes
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: MS 4066
Folio: f. 371-372
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I received yours & with itt a bill for 50[?] remitted in Mr Kipper his name the money will be paid on Munday next. I shall not faile to order the payment att London & att the precise tyme. And I pray [between?] that I resent very [a..itionatly?] the respects you have shown me & [Clement?] which I take as my own Interrest & I hope the tyme is very near I may express to you as readily as sincerly that in what you shall command my interrest I shall approve my selfe
Sr Your very affectinate obliged frend Chr Hatton
Christopher Hatton received a bill from Mr. Downes, which was remitted in Mr. Kipper’s name. Christopher Hatton, 1st Viscount Hatton, was a politician. He was elected MP for Northampton in 1663, but moved to the House of Lords upon the death of his father (Jan Broadway, Hatton, Christopher, first Viscount Hatton (bap. 1632, d. 1706), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12607, accessed 8 July 2013]).
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Robert Southwell to Hans Sloane – December 21, 1694
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Date: December 21, 1694
Author: Robert Southwell
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 199-200
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[fol. 199] London 21th Decembr 1694 Sr When I came home this day, I found the Effects of your favour in a compeat [sic] sett of Transactions, for which I must thank you at Leisure. In the meane time the book Binder being gone, and not knowing where he lives, I herewith send not onely the 4l:17s: which you have expended. But the nine halfe crownse which is for him. And soe with All due acknowledgmt. I am Sr Your most affect. and humble servant Robert Southwell
Sir Robert Southwell was a diplomat and government official. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1662, and was elected president from 1690 to 1695 (Toby Barnard, Southwell, Sir Robert (16351702), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26066, accessed 19 June 2013]).
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Francis Bernard to Hans Sloane – April 7, 1694
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Date: April 7, 1694
Author: Francis Bernard
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 167-168
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[fol. 167] Deare Dr If this meet you before you are gone yr Rambles then know you are Certaine I will obey yr Commands betweene Eleven & twelve In the mean time I am yr humble servant Franc: Bernard Ap: 7 94
Francis Bernard (bap. 1628, d. 1698) was an apothecary and physician. He worked at St Bartholomew’s Hospital from 1661 and was noted for his labours during the great plague of 1665. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1680. Bernard had a large library with books in Greek, Latin, French, and Italian (Juanita Burnby, ‘Bernard, Francis (bap. 1628, d. 1698)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2241, accessed 23 July 2014]).
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Ad: Buddle to Petiver – Saturday noon
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Date: Saturday noon
Author: Ad: Buddle
Recipient: Petiver
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: MS 4066
Folio: f. 279
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Mr Petiver
I design to lye at Hamp
-stead this night & to
morrow night if I can’t
have your company to
night be sure to be with
me as soon as you can to
morrow
Yours
Ad: Buddle
Saturday noon
Buddle informs Petiver that he is spending the night in Hampstead and hopes to meet Petiver later that evening or the following morning. Adam Buddle (bap. 1662, d. 1715) was a botanist and an ordained minister with the Church of England. While living in Henley, Suffolk, Buddle corresponded with James Petiver and Samuel Doody. Buddle had an impressive collection of mosses and grasses that he lent to Petiver and Doody, which were later passed on to Tournefort and Bobart. Buddle also acquired several specimens of English flora, which he bequeathed to Sloane. (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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Adam Buddle to Cary – June ye 20th two of ye clock
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Date: June ye 20th two of ye clock
Author: Adam Buddle
Recipient: Cary
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: MS 4066
Folio: f. 286
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June ye 20th two of ye clock
Madam Cary
If this note finds you, if you will
come to ye ship Tavern in Bartholomew
Lane, you will be kindly received
by your
Kinsman & servant
Adam Buddle
here is onely Mr Petiver with me
Buddle asks Madam Cary to meet him at the Ship Tavern in Bartholomew Lane. Adam Buddle (bap. 1662, d. 1715) was a botanist and an ordained minister with the Church of England. While living in Henley, Suffolk, Buddle corresponded with James Petiver and Samuel Doody. Buddle had an impressive collection of mosses and grasses that he lent to Petiver and Doody, which were later passed on to Tournefort and Bobart. Buddle also acquired several specimens of English flora, which he bequeathed to Sloane. (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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Ralph Thoresby to Hans Sloane – October 13, 1711
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Date: October 13, 1711
Author: Ralph Thoresby
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: f. 356
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society, Scholarship, Scientific
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Subjects
Curiosities, Indies, Intellectual Disputes, Leeds, Metallurgy, Publishing, Topography
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Date (as written)
October 13, 1711
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Leedes
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Others mentioned
Mr Knight Thomas Hearne John Woodward
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Patients mentioned
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Thoresby recounts his exchange with Hearne, who read and commented on a letter Thoresby had sent Sloane. He is not impressed with Hearne’s suggestions. The two men disagree over the metallurgical methods used of the Romans, Britons, and Danes. Thoresby intends to publish a topography of Leeds. He discusses the acquisition of curiosities and his connections in the Indies.
Thoresby was an antiquary and topographer. He expanded his fathers Musaeum Thoresbyanum impressively, and his collection brought him into discussion with many important political and scholarly figures (P. E. Kell, Thoresby, Ralph (16581725), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27334, accessed 3 June 2011]).
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Ad: Buddle to J. Petiver –
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Date:
Author: Ad: Buddle
Recipient: J. Petiver
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: MS 4066
Folio: f. 287
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Buddle informs Petiver that his wife was “brought to bed this evening,” and “in ye morning I [Buddle] was in hast then coming for the midwife[.]” (bap. 1662, d. 1715) was a botanist and an ordained minister with the Church of England. While living in Henley, Suffolk, Buddle corresponded with James Petiver and Samuel Doody. Buddle had an impressive collection of mosses and grasses that he lent to Petiver and Doody, which were later passed on to Tournefort and Bobart. Buddle also acquired several specimens of English flora, which he bequeathed to Sloane. (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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William Browne to Hans Sloane – May 4 1734
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Date: May 4 1734
Author: William Browne
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4053
Folio: f. 209
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Browne writes to Sloane about a patient with pain in his stomach and bowels from whom 8 oz of blood was taken from his arm on April 26th. His complexion was discoloured and the periods of his fever became certain and fixed with pain on the left. Browne has given 3 or 4 doses everyday of a bark mix. Lately he has had sharp pain, but no fever. He has vomited twice this week, his body opens up with the rhubarb added to the bark.
He writes that they began Sloane’s receipt on April the 29th and will try to see if his stomach will bear the Bark.
Sir William Browne gained his MD from Cambridge in 1725 and was elected a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1726. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1739 and knighted in 1748. Browne published books on a wide range of topics and served the Royal College of Physicians in a number of capacities (Leslie Stephen, Browne, Sir William (16921774), rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2007 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/3708, accessed 13 Aug 2013]).
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Henry Newman to Hans Sloane – Tuesday 9. April 1734
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Date: Tuesday 9. April 1734
Author: Henry Newman
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4053
Folio: f. 193
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Extract of Minutes of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge
Bartel’s Buildngs
Tuesday 9. April 1734
Mr. Copping reported that Sr. Hans Sloan had presented and recommended the Memorial relating to the support of the Salisbury Ministers gone to Georgia to the Rt. Hon.ble the Countess of Harold and the Trustees of the late Earl of Shanet’s Charity.
Agreed that Mr. Copping be desired to return the Thanks of the Society to Sr. Hans Sloan for his good offices on that occasion.
Henry Newman (1670-1743) was Secretary for The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. He graduated BA and MA from Harvard, worked as a librarian, and entered the commercial fishing industry in Newfoundland until 1703 when he settled in England to work for the Society (Leonard W. Cowie, ‘Newman, Henry (1670–1743)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/39693, accessed 14 Aug 2015]).
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Charles Du Bois to Hans Sloane – March 18th 1733/4
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Date: March 18th 1733/4
Author: Charles Du Bois
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4053
Folio: f. 183
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Du Bois writes to Sloane about a curious bird that was brought form Arabia by one of “our” coffee ships. Its Arabic name is Lohong and it eats any kind of fish or flesh and seems to be an undiscribed bird.
Charles du Bois was a botanist working as the cashier-general of the East India Company. He became acquainted with other natural historians like James Petiver, William Sherard and Sloane, and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1700 (B. D. Jackson, Dubois, Charles (bap. 1658, d. 1740), rev. P. E. Kell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8113, accessed 8 July 2013]).