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John Moore to Hans Sloane – December 6, 1700
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Date: December 6, 1700
Author: John Moore
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 101-102
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Moore wants to borrow the last eight books of Andreas A. Lacuna’s ‘Geoponica’ in translation. He assures Sloane that he will carefully return it, with thanks.
Moore was the Bishop of Ely (Peter Meadows, Moore, John (16461714), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19126, accessed 25 June 2013]).
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Arthur Charlett to Hans Sloane – December 10, 1700
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Date: December 10, 1700
Author: Arthur Charlett
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 103-104
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Charlett thanks Sloane for the medical advice he gave to a friend. He tells Sloane that he has not been able to inform the professors of the elections at Gresham and ‘St Andrews Festival’. Charlett offers his service to Mr Bromfil, who can find out when the ‘university Terme ends’ by looking at an ‘Oxford Almanack’.
Charlett was elected Master of University College at Oxford in 1692 and held that post until his death in 1722. Charlett used the mastership to gain influence, especially through persistent letter-writing to numerous correspondents, sharing the latest literary, political, and scholarly gossip (R. H. Darwall-Smith, Charlett, Arthur (16551722), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5158, accessed 18 June 2013]).
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Humfrey Wanley to Hans Sloane – December 12, 1700
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Date: December 12, 1700
Author: Humfrey Wanley
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 105-106
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Wanley discusses Latin translations of the Bible and the age of the manuscripts Sloane had asked about. The manuscripts are from the time of Henry II and Pope Eugenius III. Wanley believes 1191 is an accurate dating. He thanks Sloane for his many favours and states his desire to repay him in any way he can.
Wanley was an Old English scholar and a librarian. He contributed four catalogues to Bernards Catalogue, a collection of manuscripts published in 1697. He was appointed assistant at the Bodleian Library in 1695 (Peter Heyworth, Wanley, Humfrey (16721726), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28664, accessed 19 June 2013]).
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Godfrey Copley to Hans Sloane – December 30, 1700
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Date: December 30, 1700
Author: Godfrey Copley
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 115-116
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Copley has not asked his Lord the questions Sloane forwarded to help Copley find a suitable governor. Copley states that he believes his Lord’s last governor was a military man. He relays the dates that he will be in town and hopes to meet with Sloane. He is glad Mr Halley has returned home.
Sir Godfrey Copley was a politician and active member of the Royal Society. He was elected a Fellow of the latter in 1691 (C. I. McGrath, Copley, Sir Godfrey, second baronet (c.16531709), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6269, accessed 24 June 2013]).
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Thomas Hyde to Hans Sloane – September 27, 1700
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Date: September 27, 1700
Author: Thomas Hyde
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 75-76
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Hyde thanks Sloane for his donation to Oxford’s public library. He informs Sloane that the donation is now under Hyde’s custodianship. Hyde asks Sloane to present his service to his wife and Dr Hicks.
Hyde was the librarian of the Bodleian Library from 1665 to 1701. He possessed excellent linguistic skills in eastern languages, especially ancient Persian and Arabic (P. J. Marshall, Hyde, Thomas (16361703), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14336, accessed 19 June 2013]).
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Arthur Charlett to Hans Sloane – December 20, 1700
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Date: December 20, 1700
Author: Arthur Charlett
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 111-112
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Charlett was elected Master of University College at Oxford in 1692 and held that post until his death in 1722. Charlett used the mastership to gain influence, especially through persistent letter-writing to numerous correspondents, sharing the latest literary, political, and scholarly gossip (R. H. Darwall-Smith, Charlett, Arthur (16551722), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5158, accessed 18 June 2013]).
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Victor Ferguson to Hans Sloane – July 23, 1700
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Date: July 23, 1700
Author: Victor Ferguson
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 38-39
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Victor Ferguson (d. 1729) was a physician of Newtown, near Belfast (Toby C. Bernard, A New Anatomy of Ireland: The Irish Protestants, 1649-1770 (Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2003), ch. 5; “Fergusons of Belfast” URL: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~colin/FergusonsOfIreland/Belfast.htm).
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Victor Ferguson to Hans Sloane – July 23, 1700
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Date: July 23, 1700
Author: Victor Ferguson
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 38-39
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Victor Ferguson (d. 1729) was a physician of Newtown, near Belfast (Toby C. Bernard, A New Anatomy of Ireland: The Irish Protestants, 1649-1770 (Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2003), ch. 5; “Fergusons of Belfast” URL: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~colin/FergusonsOfIreland/Belfast.htm).
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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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Hans Sloane to Jean-Paul Bignon – 1 Juillet 1728
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Date: 1 Juillet 1728
Author: Hans Sloane
Recipient: Jean-Paul Bignon
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4068
Folio: f. 144-145
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Monseigneur l’Abbé Bignon A Londres le 1 Juillet 1728.S.V.
Le choix de Mr. le Professeur Schoepflin[?] de Strasbourg que nous venons d’aggreger à notre Societé Royale, outre qu’il est tombè sur une personne de beaucoup de merite, m’a etè d’autant plus agreable, qu’il m’a fourni une occasion de vous montrer, combien je respecte des recommendations qui me viennent de votre part, & de vous asseurer directer, que je me feray toujours un vray plaisir de vous faire voir combien Je suis a votre service. Je prens la liberte de vous prier a cause que ce ne serai pas ou il est a profrit[?] de luy faire tenir l’enclose, qui luy en porte la nouvelle. J’auray l’honneur par la premiere occasion de vous envoyer les dernieres Transactions Philosophiques & que jay trouve mesme depuis avoir commence cette lettre nostre derniere assemblée, ou nous presentâ de la part d’un papier es de ce pays suy deux feuilles d’un papier gris fort son quilter, un peu grossier à la veritè, mais neant moins tres propre pour dires usager souffrant mesme l’anire[?] la premiere, qun estait d’une coleur un peu verte estait faite d’orties ordinaires, l’aidre[?] qui estait plus clair d’orties melesZ avec des autres herbes sauvages autres herbes sauvages c’est les premier echantillon d’une manufacteres qu’on pourait avec le temps pousser beaucoup plus loin & c’est une chose asseZ remarquable des meuriers qu’en Europe & dans une tres grande partie de l’asie leur feuilles servent de nourriture aux vers de soie & nous promirent par là cette riche & precieuse marchandise qu’au Japon on fait du Papier de toutes esperes mesme pour des habillemens de son ecorce, & que les Indiens aussi habitans de l’Amerique septentrionales, principalement de la caroline meridionale en sont de j’ecorce de leurs meuriers[?] des etoffes ou plustot les tapis[?] de dresser[?] comme deux de Turquie ou Perse Dans lettres d’Italie de MonSr. Le Chevalier Portia il mà mandé qu’on avait trouvé la teste d’un cerf avec partie de corps dans le ventre d’un poisson qui y cet jetté sur les cotes a l’embruchure de la riviere d’arno Je suis commes, que le pouvait etre le Requien, ou canis carcharias, dont Rondelet raporte, qu’en en avait trouvè proche de Marseille & de Nice, qui avait hominer loricatum in ventricule & Petrus et Aquius que sur les rapports des Gens de Nice on en avait pris un là, qui pesaient quatre mille livres, & dans le ventre du quel on trouva aussi un homme entier. J’ay l’honneur d’etre avec la plus parfaite consideration.
& On soupsonnait autrefois en Angleterre que les linges appellees mouselin etait fait en les Orties des Judes mais car MonSr. Rawolfe dans son itineraire dit que cette manufacture se faisait des Cotton & droite le nom[?] Musolli dans la Mesopotamie.