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Samuel Dale to Hans Sloane – January 24, 1704/05
Item info
Date: January 24, 1704/05
Author: Samuel Dale
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 426-427
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Legal, Philosophical Transactions, Scholarship
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Subjects
Deaths, Entomology, Funerals, Insects, Jamaica, Shells, Specimens
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Date (as written)
January 24, 1704/05
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Braintree
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Others mentioned
Margaret Ray John Ray Sir Thomas
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Patients mentioned
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Transcription
Dale was not able to talk to Mrs Ray, as it was the day of John Ray’s internment. Dale reminds Sloane that, with Ray’s death, the £60 per annum from Willoughby terminates. He tells Sloane that Ray’s papers are all secured, including that regarding his History of Insects. He asks Sloane for one of his Jamaican shells.
Samuel Dale was an apothecary, botanist, and physician who contributed several articles to the Philosophical Transactions. He was John Ray’s executor and good friend, and from Dale’s letters to Sloane we learn many details of Ray’s final moments (G. S. Boulger, Dale, Samuel (bap. 1659, d. 1739), rev. Juanita Burnby, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7016, accessed 5 July 2013]).
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Samuel Dale to Hans Sloane – January 19, 1704/05
Item info
Date: January 19, 1704/05
Author: Samuel Dale
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 422-423
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Transcription
Dale informs Sloane that Ray died on Wednesday the 17th at 10:00 a.m. ‘But our loss is without a doubt his gain; God grant we may meet him above, where death can no more separate’.
Samuel Dale was an apothecary, botanist, and physician who contributed several articles to the Philosophical Transactions. He was John Ray’s executor and good friend, and from Dale’s letters to Sloane we learn many details of Ray’s final moments (G. S. Boulger, Dale, Samuel (bap. 1659, d. 1739), rev. Juanita Burnby, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7016, accessed 5 July 2013]).
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Humfrey Wanley to Hans Sloane – January 8, 1704/05
Item info
Date: January 8, 1704/05
Author: Humfrey Wanley
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 414-415
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Transcription
Wanley sends a book, which cost him a great deal of money and pain. He is still willing to sell it for sixty guineas and include his observations. Also enclosed is a book on which Wanley had written notes when he was still an apprentice.
Humfrey Wanley was an Old English scholar and librarian at Oxford. 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 4 July 2013]).
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John Ray to Hans Sloane – January 7, 1704/05
Item info
Date: January 7, 1704/05
Author: John Ray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: f. 412
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Transcription
Ray was a theologian and naturalist who collected and catalogued his botanical findings in the much lauded Historia plantarum (1686, 1688) (Scott Mandelbrote, Ray , John (16271705), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23203, accessed 18 June 2013]).
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Isaac Teale to Hans Sloane – December 22, 1704
Item info
Date: December 22, 1704
Author: Isaac Teale
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: f. 408
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Transcription
Teale saw Major Gower. They exchanged words and Gower gave him something to pass on to Sloane. Teale asks Sloane to pay him a visit when he is nearby.
Isaac Teale (d. 1712) was apothecary-general to the army and supervised, along with the army’s physician-general Thomas Lawrence (1655-1714), the provision of medical services during Marlborough’s campaigns in the Netherlands throughout the War of the Spanish Succession (A. A. Hanham, ‘Marlborough’s staff (act. 1702–1711)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press. [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/theme/95324, accessed 16 July 2014]).
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John Evelyn to Hans Sloane – December 13, 1704
Item info
Date: December 13, 1704
Author: John Evelyn
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: f. 404
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Transcription
Evelyn returned from the country and received a summons to the Royal Society Council. He believes Mr Hunt has made a mistake, as Evelyn asked to be left out of future meetings. He is nor in town enough and his age prevents him from adequately contributing to the meetings.
John Evelyn was a diarist and writer who demonstrated a remarkable knowledge of horticulture. He was one of the founding members of the Royal Society (Douglas D. C. Chambers, Evelyn, John (16201706), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/8996, accessed 9 July 2013]).
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Arthur Charlett to Hans Sloane – December 13, 1704
Item info
Date: December 13, 1704
Author: Arthur Charlett
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: f. 403
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Transcription
Charlett recommends Mr Bromfield, who is going to London to oversee a dissection.
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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John Ray to Hans Sloane – December 14, 1704
Item info
Date: December 14, 1704
Author: John Ray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 401-402
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Ray was a theologian and naturalist who collected and catalogued his botanical findings in the much lauded Historia plantarum (1686, 1688) (Scott Mandelbrote, Ray , John (16271705), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23203, accessed 18 June 2013]).
Patient Details
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Patient info
Name: N/A John Ray
Gender:
Age:76 years old.
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Description
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Diagnosis
Painful leg sores, which are spreading.
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment: Sloane told Ray to straighten his legs and prescribed another treatment, which Ray will pursue as soon as he has all the items necessary.
Response: Due to all his sitting, the muscles in his legs are so contracted that it causes him pain to straight them out, let alone stretch them, but he 'will endeavour what [he] can'.
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More information
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Medical problem reference
Leg Sores, Injuries (includes wounds, sores, bruises), Pain, Skin ailments
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Charles Preston to Hans Sloane – October 18, 1705
Item info
Date: October 18, 1705
Author: Charles Preston
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 79-80
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Preston writes that Sloane was unanimously accepted into the Royal College of Physicians. A diploma will arrive soon. The College had almost dwindled away after Balfour’s death, but things have changed. Now they plan on buying land in the City and having regular meetings. Preston asks about Sir Robert Sibbald’s ‘discours upon the root Chara’ and botany more generally.
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 1 June 2011]).
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Patrick Blair to Hans Sloane – November 22, 1705
Item info
Date: November 22, 1705
Author: Patrick Blair
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: ff. 90-91
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Blair forwards the papers Sloane requested related to ‘Mr Gilbert Constable Master of the Elephant of Dundee’. He sends a small treatise on Tournefort, which Sloane may wish to publish. Blair thanks Sloane for his many favours.
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]).