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Peter Barwick to Hans Sloane – March 10, 1689/90
Item info
Date: March 10, 1689/90
Author: Peter Barwick
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: f. 71
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Barwick thanks Sloane for sending the account ‘of yt pretty Child’ and those related to the Royal Society. He comments on the experiments with solvents (menstruum) Sloane and others were undertaking ‘in ye College Laboratory’. Barwick passes his best wishes to the Duchess and his wife, Anne. Mr Simpson will do good work for the Duchess. Barwick was please with the elections in Lancashire. The Duchess approved of Barwick and his wife’s services to Sloane. She was please with the two Wright sisters’ services too.
Peter Barwick (1619-1705) was a physician. He served Charles II in 1651 and was censor of the College of Physicians in 1674, 1684, and 1687. Sir Hans Sloane was one of the executors of Barwick’s will (Peter Elmer, ‘Barwick, Peter (1619–1705)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1614, accessed 9 July 2014]).
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James Hodgson (bap. 1678?, d. 1755) was a mathematician. He was an assistant to the astronomer John Flamsteed from 1695 and the cousin of the architect Sir Christopher Wren.
Reference:
Frances Willmoth, ‘Hodgson, James (bap. 1678?, d. 1755)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13437 [accessed 15 Aug 2014]).
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Johann Georg Steigertahl to Hans Sloane – August 19, 1724
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Date: August 19, 1724
Author: Johann Georg Steigertahl
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 220-221
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The King went partridge and rabbit hunting, but was disrupted by a storm. The Comte de Bottsmer is well and thanks Sloane for helping his domestic workers. Mr Scheibel is to give Sloane an update on the case. The sickness affecting Bottsmer’s household required Sloane’s expert opinion. Steigertahl describes the epidemics of 1707, 1708, and 1709, which afflicted the military: ‘comme l’armee fut campe pres de la Riviere le Rhin’.
Johann Georg Steigertahl (1666-1740) was the personal physician to George I of England. He was a member of the Royal Society and secured the purchase of Engelbert Kaempfer’s collection of East Asian curiosities for Sir Hans Sloane in 1723 (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Steigerthal).
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Nehemiah Grew to Hans Sloane – May, 1698
Item info
Date: May, 1698
Author: Nehemiah Grew
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: f. 77
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Scholarship, Scientific, Social, Trade or Commodities
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Subjects
Books, Charlatans, Counterfeits, Purgatives, Quacks, Waters
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Date (as written)
May, 1698
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Racwury Court Fleetstreet, London
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Others mentioned
Mr Tramel Francis Moult
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Patients mentioned
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Grew discusses his recently published book on ‘Purging Waters’ and has enclosed a copy for Sloane. He complains that counterfeit copies were being printed by Francis Moult and laments the fact that ‘corrupt’ salts are being peddled by pseudo-chemists.
Grew was a botanist and physician who, in 1677, was appointed joint secretary of the Royal Society along with Robert Hooke (Michael Hunter, Grew, Nehemiah (bap. 1641, d. 1712), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11521, accessed 11 May 2011].
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William Sherard to Hans Sloane – September 20, 1698
Item info
Date: September 20, 1698
Author: William Sherard
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 123-124
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Sherard informs Sloane that Dr Bernard’s library is to be put to auction. Monsignor Campini has died. The latter’s library and estate were willed to Clementine College. Sherard briefly discusses classical authors Strabo and Ptolemy. He includes a list of the books he has purchased for Sloane and those he can procure if Sloane wishes.
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 (16591728), 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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Johann Georg Steigertahl to Hans Sloane – September 28, 1724
Item info
Date: September 28, 1724
Author: Johann Georg Steigertahl
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: f. 261
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Mr Mehmet informed Steigertahl that the King will be dining in Kensington. Steigertahl hopes to see Sloane during his stay in London. He was glad to hear that the Comte de Lippe is doing well. Mrs Steigertahl sends on her compliments.
Johann Georg Steigertahl (1666-1740) was the personal physician to George I of England. He was a member of the Royal Society and secured the purchase of Engelbert Kaempfer’s collection of East Asian curiosities for Sir Hans Sloane in 1723 (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Steigerthal).
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George Richmond to Hans Sloane – August 20, 1732
Item info
Date: August 20, 1732
Author: George Richmond
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: ff. 168-169
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[fol. 168] Sr I send you enclosd ye bill of lading for your Books in a Box directed for your Honnour to be left at ye Custom House at London I am sorry they have been so long in Coming by waiting at Rouen and at last oblig’d to send them to Diepe the whole of ye Expence amounts to seven pounds if your Honnour thinks proper to Employ the other 5 pounds your Honnours Commands shall be punctually obey’d in in what manner you think proper Either in Books or Prints and in any thing I Can Serve your Honnour it will be the Greatest pleasure to Sr your Honnours most oblig’d most Humble & obedient servant G: Richmond Paris Agust [sic] ye 20th 1732 NS.
George Richmond was Secretary to Baron Petre. He later became a bookseller in Paris.
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Johann Georg Steigertahl to Hans Sloane – September 22, 1724
Item info
Date: September 22, 1724
Author: Johann Georg Steigertahl
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 255-256
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Transcription
The Duchess of Kendel thanks Sloane for taking care of the Comte de Lippe in Steigertahl’s absence. The King is well, as is Mr Hodges.
Johann Georg Steigertahl (1666-1740) was the personal physician to George I of England. He was a member of the Royal Society and secured the purchase of Engelbert Kaempfer’s collection of East Asian curiosities for Sir Hans Sloane in 1723 (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Steigerthal).
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Bernard Connor to Hans Sloane – May 28, 1695
Item info
Date: May 28, 1695
Author: Bernard Connor
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 213-214
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Connor thanks Sloane for the hospitality shown him on his visit to London. He has not received anything from Poland. Connor is having ‘a small little treatise’ translated and printed. He has letters for ‘dr Ratcliff… and dr Brown’. Connor asks Sloane to let him know if anything ‘new in Physick [is] coming out, or it yr Book of Plants is finished’. He is stopping at Cambridge before returning to London.
Bernard Connor (c. 1666-1698) was a physician and writer with an interest in Poland. His magnum opus was The History of Poland (1698). Connor was a friend of Hans Sloane (Gerald Stone, Connor , Bernard (c.16661698), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6086, accessed 19 June 2013]).
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Johann Georg Steigertahl to Hans Sloane – August 16, 1724
Item info
Date: August 16, 1724
Author: Johann Georg Steigertahl
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 214-215
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Transcription
Steigertahl thanks Sloane for managing his finances while he is away. The King arrived on Friday and is in good health. The city welcomed Him back with joy. ‘Mr. le comte de Bottsmer’ sends his compliments. One of Bottsmer’s domestic worker fell ill. Steigertahl sends his greetings to Sloane’s family.
Johann Georg Steigertahl (1666-1740) was the personal physician to George I of England. He was a member of the Royal Society and secured the purchase of Engelbert Kaempfer’s collection of East Asian curiosities for Sir Hans Sloane in 1723 (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Steigerthal).
