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Humfrey Wanley to Hans Sloane – March 9, 1701/02
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Date: March 9, 1701/02
Author: Humfrey Wanley
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: f. 314
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[fol. 314] 9. March. 1701/2. Honor’d Sir, The hurry I’me in, which yet is necessary, will not permit me to wait on you, these 2 days yet: And I send this, to prevent your thinking that I have not that great Love, that sincere Value, Respect & Honor for you, that I have always profess’d, and that your great Favors have made a Duty incumbent upon me. I am chosen secretary to the society, who were unanimous in the Resolution, and ‘taws at a very full meeting. They have augmented my salary, and my Business too. What I’me now bussied in, is, to give notice to all our Correspondents throughout England, of this Alteration, that they may direct their Letters to me for the future. And since this can’t be avoided, I humbly intreat you to have yet a little more patience with Honor’s Sir, You most faithful & humbley devoted servant H Wanley.
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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Alexander Stuart to Hans Sloane – February 28, 1701/02
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Date: February 28, 1701/02
Author: Alexander Stuart
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 306-307
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Stuart thanks Sloane for his letter and for sending Bellini’s ‘Opuscula’, which goes beyond the scope of Stuart’s original request.
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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Alexander Stuart to Hans Sloane – February 16, 1701/02
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Date: February 16, 1701/02
Author: Alexander Stuart
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: f. 305
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[fol. 305]
Febry 16th/ 1701/2.
From on board the London at anchors in the Hope
Much Honoured Sir,
Being just now got on board I though it my duety to let you know, and to give you my humble thanks for your extraordinary kindenesses towards me on all occasions but more particularly the last: I cannot also omitt to thank you for those books you pleased to allow me which encouraged me to ask you one more viz Bellini’s opuscula which I could not find after inquiry at most book seller shops in London, the prise is about four shillings, which Mr Stuart Chymist will readily pay if by a penny post letter youd please to inform him where he may find it. I’ve desired him to send it to capt Mathews’s hovel door to the White Horse in Broadstreet, if by any means he can find it. I found the othr volume de Urinis et pulsibus and most othr books I designd to take, along with me. Moan hime and begg your excuse for this presumption, the principal
design of this letter being to acknowledge [your] self. Much Honoured Sir Your most humble and Obliged servt Alexander Stuart
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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Ralph Thoresby to Hans Sloane – February 7, 1701/02
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Date: February 7, 1701/02
Author: Ralph Thoresby
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: f. 302
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Thoresby asks Sloane to provide Dean Hicks with some Indian plant specimens. He promises Hicks will keep them safe.
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 27 June 2013]).
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Thomas Hyde to Hans Sloane – January 24, 1701/02
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Date: January 24, 1701/02
Author: Thomas Hyde
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 292-293
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Hyde explains that he was abandoned by many of his subscribers, which made him act uncharitably to his friends. He is sorry if Sloane took offence. Hyde has arranged to have the remaining copies of the book put in Sloane’s care. He discusses his new work, which will take the form of a book entitled ‘Natural History of Egypt’.
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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Stephen Gray to Hans Sloane – January 1, 1702
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Date: January 1, 1702
Author: Stephen Gray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 284-285
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Gray sends the picture of the bones Sloane had requested. He wants it returned as soon as the Royal Society is done with it. Gray’s brother says that he will search for the rest of the bones with the encouragement of a gentleman. Gray thanks Sloane for the Philosophical Transactions.
Gray was an experimental philosopher who established a rapport with the Royal Society and Royal Greenwich Observatory, published articles in the Transactions, and experimented with electricity (Michael Ben-Chaim, Gray, Stephen (bap. 1666, d. 1736), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11354, accessed 26 June 2013]).
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Charles Preston to Hans Sloane – December 16, 1701
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Date: December 16, 1701
Author: Charles Preston
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 279-280
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Curiosity Reports, Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society, Scholarship
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Subjects
Bible, Books, History, Medical Curiosities, Ornithology, Scotland, Waterfowl
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Date (as written)
December 16, 1701
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Edinburgh
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Others mentioned
James Sutherland Sir Robert Sibbald Mr Smith
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Patients mentioned
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Preston thanks Sloane for the Philosophical Transactions and discusses the medical curiosities shown to him by Mr Smith. These included nipples and gallstones, one of which Preston has secured for the Royal Society. He describes a small waterfowl sent by Mr Sutherland. Preston discusses books about the Flood, the birth of Abraham, and an appendix to Sibbald’s history of Scotland.
Preston was a physician and botanist who established a lengthy correspondence with Sloane, exchanging plants, seeds, books and information. His main interest was in botany, and was well-known by his contemporaries for his botanical knowledge (Anita Guerrini, Preston, Charles (16601711), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47084, accessed 18 June 2013]).
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John McBride to Hans Sloane – January 16, 1701/02
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Date: January 16, 1701/02
Author: John McBride
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 288-289
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McBride thanks Sloane for the Philosophical Transactions. He recommends the bearer, a medical student named James McCartney. McBride explains that McCartney is in London to increase his medical knowledge.
John McBride (ca. 1650-1718) was Minister of the Presbyterian General Synod of Ulster and a religious controversialist (D. W. Hayton, ‘McBride, John (c.1650–1718)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17361, accessed 14 June 2011]).
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Charles Preston to Hans Sloane – January 13, 1702
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Date: January 13, 1702
Author: Charles Preston
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 286-287
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Preston thanks Sloane for the Philosophical Transactions and asks for those he missed from 1700. He discusses fungi in detail and encloses an item to be forwarded to John Ray.
Preston was a physician and botanist who established a lengthy correspondence with Sloane, exchanging plants, seeds, books and information. His main interest was in botany, and was well-known by his contemporaries for his botanical knowledge (Anita Guerrini, Preston, Charles (16601711), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47084, accessed 18 June 2013]).
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James Sutherland to Hans Sloane – December 11, 1701
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Date: December 11, 1701
Author: James Sutherland
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: f. 276
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Sutherland received the box of medals Sloane sent him. He is most interested in consular and imperial silver pieces. Sutherland introduces Sloane to the bearer, asking him to make his acquaintance.
Sutherland was a botanist and was appointed as professor of botany at the University of Edinburgh in 1695. He published the Hortus medicus Edinburgensis in 1683 (Anita Guerrini, Sutherland, James (c.16381719), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47083, accessed 27 June 2013]).