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Thomas Cooke to Hans Sloane – Dec. 16 1734
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Date: Dec. 16 1734
Author: Thomas Cooke
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4053
Folio: f. 352
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Received of Sr Has Sloane Bart the sum of Half a Guinea being the whole payment for a set of my Edition of Terence in three Volumes which shall be delivered as printed by me
Thomas Cooke
Cooke writes a receipt for Sloane’s subscription to his volumes of Terence.
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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Patrick Blair to Hans Sloane – September 10, 1713
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Date: September 10, 1713
Author: Patrick Blair
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 180-181
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Blair will take whatever ‘Coppys of the Elephant’ treatise Sloane can spare. He wants to publish his work on elephants in the Philosophical Transactions. ‘The copper plates are not in the printers hands’ yet.
Patrick Blair was a botanist and surgeon whose papers were published in the Transactions. In 1715 Blair joined the Jacobite rebellion as a battle surgeon but was captured and condemned to death. He was visited by Sloane in prison in the hopes the latter might secure a pardon. Sloane was successful and the pardon arrived shortly before Blair’s scheduled execution (Anita Guerrini, Blair, Patrick (c.16801728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2568, accessed 31 May 2011]).
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John Woodward to Hans Sloane – June 23, 1716
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Date: June 23, 1716
Author: John Woodward
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: f. 180
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Scheuchzer has not received an answer to his letter and believes it was lost en route. Woodward has a duplicate of the letter for Sloane.
Woodward was a physician, natural historian and antiquary who expounded a theory of the earth in which fossils were creatures destroyed by the biblical flood. This embroiled him in a controversy in which he was opposed by John Ray, Edward Llwyd, Martin Lister, and Tancred Robinson (J. M. Levine, “Woodward, John (1665/1668-1728)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29946, accessed 17 June 2011]).
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Arthur Charlett to Hans Sloane – December 30, 1718
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Date: December 30, 1718
Author: Arthur Charlett
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: ff. 179-180
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Library, Medical, Patronage, Scholarship, Trade or Commodities
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Subjects
Bodleian Library, Books, Classics, Museums
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Date (as written)
December 30, 1718
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Univ. Coll Oxon
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Others mentioned
Mr Whiteside Dr Conoly Charles Searboroug Horace
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Patients mentioned
Arthur Charlett
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Charlett thanks Sloane for ordering him books. Mr Whiteside has been taking care of the museum and it is ‘in perfect order’. Dr Clark and others offer their thanks to Sloane for his donations to the Bodleian Library. He writes of a copy of ‘Horaces advice’, which is in good condition and titled ‘Rebus omissir Atvia servandem pestico talle Chentem’.
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 1 June 2011]).
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Cecilia Garrard to Hans Sloane – August 28, 1725
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Date: August 28, 1725
Author: Cecilia Garrard
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4048
Folio: f. 53
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Garrard thanks Sloane for sending a copy of the second volume of his Natural History of Jamaica.
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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Richard Bentley to Hans Sloane – June 8, 1728
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Date: June 8, 1728
Author: Richard Bentley
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4049
Folio: ff. 179-180
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Bentley recommends Mr Weichmann, believing him ‘fit to be admitted of our Royal Society’. Mr Derham is of the same view.
Richard Bentley (1662-1742) was a philologist and classical scholar. He was named Master of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1699 (Hugh de Quehen, ‘Bentley, Richard (1662–1742)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/2169, accessed 6 Aug 2014]).
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Cecilia Garrard to Hans Sloane – June 2, 1707
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Date: June 2, 1707
Author: Cecilia Garrard
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 367-368
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Garrard thanks Sloane for sending a copy of the ‘Natural History of Jamaica’. She apologizes for not being able to thank him in person.
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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Alexander Stuart to Hans Sloane – February 25, 1710
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Date: February 25, 1710
Author: Alexander Stuart
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 105-106
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[fol. 105] Leyden Febray 25th 1710
Much Honoured Sir
I gave you the trouble of a Letter hence of Dec Last, to return my hearty thanks for your recommendatory Letters, which had a very good Effect. We have a Laste Report here of ane aproaching peace, where I presume to renew my former Request to you, if you think fit to make mention of me to any young Gentleman who intends to travel in these parts. I think I have so much French as is necessary for that end, and hope in a few months I shall have acquired some knowledg in the Dutch.
I have some thoughts of makeing a Collection of plants by way of a Dry Herbal out of the Physick Garden here; but I understand it is not commonly permitted; therefore have not yet ventured to ask Mr Boerhaave about it: If I cab be any ways serviceable to you in this, or find any Difficulty in obtaining Leave, I shall presume to Let you know, that is you think fitt you may mention it to Mr Boerhaave, who I beleive woud readily grant me that liberty at your Request. If it is in my Power to render you any service here, I beg you’l favour me with your Commands of which I shall be very fond, as of all opportunitys of expressing how sensible I am of your undeprved Freindship towards
Much Honured Sir Your most humble and
most obliged Servt. Alexr Stuart.
My humble Respects to your Honoured Lady and Family.
I shall very much esteem the Honour of a line from you. Please to direct for me att Myn Heer Monteba’s op de Longe Brugg lot Leyden.
Stuart was a physician and natural philosopher. He served as a ship’s surgeon from 1701-1707 and corresponded with Sloane while at sea, sending him natural history specimens. Stuart contributed articles to the Philosophical Transactions from the 1720s, mostly on physiology (Anita Guerrini, Stuart, Alexander (1673?1742), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47081, accessed 3 July 2013]).
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William Plowden to Hans Sloane – March 15, 1723/24
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Date: March 15, 1723/24
Author: William Plowden
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 149-150
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Plowden asks Sloane to inform Elizabeth Sloane and Mrs Fuller of his wife’s condition.
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A John Plowden
Gender:
Age:
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Description
Mrs Plowden has a 'dry husk cough', which came about after she went for a ride. She almost fainted on her horse, then had a cold for a fortnight. Plowden thinks she is 'att the last extremity', i.e. near death. Other symptoms include: swollen stomach, swollen legs, shortness of breath, fever, 'an Asthmatick cough', 'dropsicall swelling', 'brings up nothing but thick flegm', general weakness, and sleeplessness. She has refused food and treatment.
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Diagnosis
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: She 'took the bark in powder', but it made her vomit; purged twice.
Ongoing Treatment:
Response: Nothing proved effective.
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More information
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Medical problem reference
Stomach, Asthma, Fainting, Inflammations, Heart, Fevers, Coughs, Colds, Shortness of Breath, Fevers, Stomach
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William Plowden to Hans Sloane – March 15, 1723/24
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Date: March 15, 1723/24
Author: William Plowden
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 149-150
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Plowden asks Sloane to inform Elizabeth Sloane and Mrs Fuller of his wife’s condition.
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A John Plowden
Gender:
Age:11 years old.
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Description
Plowden is not pleased with the account Sloane gave him of his son's condition. He asks Sloane to continue consulting with Dr Stevens and Mr Wanly to effect a cure. The boy's recent symptoms include a weak stomach and fever.
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Diagnosis
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: The boy was given 'Electuarys for 8 months for his other ailment'.
Ongoing Treatment: Plowden suggests cold baths might do the boy some good.
Response:
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More information
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Medical problem reference
Stomach, Asthma, Fainting, Inflammations, Heart, Fevers, Coughs, Colds, Shortness of Breath, Fevers, Stomach