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Thomas Dereham to Hans Sloane – ye 17 February 1734
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Date: ye 17 February 1734
Author: Thomas Dereham
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4054
Folio: f. 5
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ye 17 February 1734
Sir
I am desired by Sig.e Eusachio Manfredi a most worthy member of our R. Society, to present unto you the enclosed packet containing three copies of his “Questions de recta Parchae Indictione,” whereof I gave you a hint sometime ago, entreating you to give one of the said papers for the perusall of the Astronomers of the R. Society, & then send one of the other two, unto each of the universities of Oxford, & Cambridge, whence in due time you must be pleased to require their wise opinion, & no less of the Astronomers of out R. Society, whilst Sig.e Manfredi has sent unto all the other most renowned universities, & Academies in Europe this paper of his to gett there approbation, or admonition, & it would be glorious for our society that one of our members could make the world easie for 5000 years upon a point that hitherto has caused so many disputes, & inconveniences, wherefore in expectation of your kind concurrence, & meditation to so usefull an effect, I hope it will not be log before you return to me a gratefull answer, & that you will do me the justice to believe that I have nothing so much at heart as to promote the honour, 7 renown of our Society, & to prove my self with great respect
Sir
your most Obedient, & most humble servant
Thomas Dereham
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Sloane Catalogues and Databases
Ficus maxima. Sloane’s label is at the foot of page 79 verso in volume 7:80. It refers to the pencil sketch from life on this page. The pencil sketch was inked by Kickius (not signed). There is no specimen of this plant. (Entry by C. D. Adams) Source: Natural History Museum, The Sloane Herbarium, ID 970.
Much of the Sloane correspondence is available on microfilm. The Adam Matthews guide also has a list of all the correspondents in the collection.
You can search for individual volumes (e.g. ‘Sloane MS 4038’) to look at the correspondents and order of letters in each volume.
Fancy a look at the 8695 objects at the British Museum that belonged to Sloane?
Exciting new project at the British Museum and University College London that aims to understand the structure of Sloane’s catalogues and collections.
This project brings together the printed books that once belonged to Sloane, some of which were dispersed far beyond the British Library.
Given Sloane’s longstanding participation in the Royal Society, particularly as Secretary and President, it is not surprising that he appears frequently in the Royal Society archives.
You can explore the botanical specimens of Sloane’s herbarium, as well as learn about how they have been preserved.
A project to explore the possibility of digitally reunify Sloane’s collections that are now held at the British Library, British Museum, and Natural History Museum.
Maria Sibylla Merian, Muscovy duck with snake (ca. 1701-1705). Credit: British Museum, SL,5275.78 .
Collectors and Correspondents
A project about seventeenth-century collectors, many of who overlap with the Sloane correspondence.
A Cultures of Knowledge that aims to make the correspondence of the Republic of Letters more findable. There are letters by Sloane listed here, as well as many of his correspondents.
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Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon to Hans Sloane – March 13th 1733/4
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Date: March 13th 1733/4
Author: Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4053
Folio: f. 180
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Hyde writes that upon his enquiry, he found that Madame Boromer is only a countess. He says he would have endeavoured to call upon Sloane, but has been too consumed with business. He asks Sloane to admit the Lady according to the custom of the society, for which he will be much obliged. He closes with a note that he will visit soon, sooner if Sloane has any questions about this matter.
Henry Hyde, 2nd Earl of Clarendon, was a politician who served as Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland under James II. He went into self-imposed exile to avoid arrest after falling on the wrong side of the Glorious Revolution (1688), but returned to parliamentary politics in the 1690s (W. A. Speck, Hyde, Henry, second earl of Clarendon (16381709), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2012 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14329, accessed 9 July 2013]).
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Cecilia Garrard to Hans Sloane – February 5th 1733/4
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Date: February 5th 1733/4
Author: Cecilia Garrard
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4053
Folio: f. 159
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Lady Garrard writes to Sloane thanking him for the favours he did to herself and her friends, including the viewing of his universally celebrated collection of curiosities and great variety of rarities. She poetically writes that she wishes “the sun might a second time remain motionless to give more leisure for contemplation as well as admiration”. This encouraged her to send him an insect found in a decayed branch of an apple tree by her gardener about three weeks ago. For that time it had lived chameleon like, not wasting or growing weak, but moves like a caterpillar. She hopes the insect will arrive alive by post and will be satisfying to Sloane.
Cecillia Garrard (nee Steed) was the wife of Sir Nicholas Garrard (1665-1727), 3rd Baronet of Langford. They married in 1671 (‘Hundred of South Greenhoe: Langford’, An Essay towards a Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: volume 6 (1807), pp. 20-26. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=78224).
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Thomas Cooke to Hans Sloane – November 17th 1733
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Date: November 17th 1733
Author: Thomas Cooke
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4053
Folio: f. 83
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Cooke writes to thanks Sloane for agreeing to take in the writers surveying London and Westminster in the future.
Thomas Cooke (1703-1756), known as ‘Hesiod’ Cooke, was a popular translator of the Classics and writer (Sidney Lee, ‘Cooke, Thomas (1703–1756)’, rev. Arthur Sherbo, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6180, accessed 20 Aug 2014]).
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Thomas Cooke to Hans Sloane – June 16, 1730
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Date: June 16, 1730
Author: Thomas Cooke
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4051
Folio: ff. 49-50
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Charity, Legal, Patronage, Scholarship, Trade or Commodities
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Subjects
Debts, Greek, Hesiod, Poetry, Prison, Subscriptions, Translations
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Date (as written)
June 16, 1730
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Southwark
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Others mentioned
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Patients mentioned
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Cooke requests that Sloane help him pay a debt, for he is finding prison very difficult. He offers a subscription to a work he is going to publish: ‘my Translation of the Works of Hesiod’.
Thomas Cooke (1703-1756), known as ‘Hesiod’ Cooke, was a popular translator of the Classics and writer (Sidney Lee, ‘Cooke, Thomas (1703–1756)’, rev. Arthur Sherbo, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6180, accessed 20 Aug 2014]).
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Thomas Cooke to Hans Sloane – November 13 1733
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Date: November 13 1733
Author: Thomas Cooke
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4053
Folio: f. 79
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Cooke writes to Sloane about a good friend who is publishing an useful work (a survey of London and Westminster), who is in need of a place to stay and wonders if Sloane will take them in anytime.
Thomas Cooke (1703-1756), known as ‘Hesiod’ Cooke, was a popular translator of the Classics and writer (Sidney Lee, ‘Cooke, Thomas (1703–1756)’, rev. Arthur Sherbo, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6180, accessed 20 Aug 2014]).
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Edwin Stede to Hans Sloane – July 14, 1694
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Date: July 14, 1694
Author: Edwin Stede
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 179-180
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Edwin Stede was the Governor of Barbados from 1685 to 1690 (‘Colonial administrators and post-independence leaders in Barbados (1627–2000)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/theme/93228, accessed 8 May 2015]).
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John Morton to Hans Sloane – June 13, 1706
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Date: June 13, 1706
Author: John Morton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 179-180
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Morton is still waiting for an account of the elephant’s skeleton and the Philosophical Transactions he was promised. He has drawn up a paper on land and river shells in Northamptonshire and the natural history of the region more generally. He hopes it will be published in the Philosophical Transactions. Morton has not reviewed Hooke’s posthumous works.
John Morton was a naturalist who was in correspondence with Sloane from roughly 1703 to 1716. Morton contributed nearly one thousand specimens (fossils, shells, bones, teeth, minerals, rocks, man-made artifacts, etc.) to Sloane’s collection (Yolanda Foote, Morton, John (16711726), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19364, accessed 2 July 2013]).
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James Keill to Hans Sloane – August 30, 1703
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Date: August 30, 1703
Author: James Keill
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 180-181
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Keill did not formally attend medical school, but through the patronage of Sloane he obtained the degree of MD from Cambridge. Sloane helped Keill enter into medical practice in Northampton (Anita Guerrini, Keill, James (16731719), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15255, accessed 2 June 2011]).
