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Edward Lhwyd to Hans Sloane – September 15, 1701
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Date: September 15, 1701
Author: Edward Lhwyd
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 236-237
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Lhwyd has been ordered to pay Sloane his respects by the Vice-Chancellor Roger Mander. He thanks Sloane for offering his duplicate books. The Vice-Chancellor is sending Jones to look over Sloane’s collection. The college plans to place all of Sloane’s books in a personalized cabinet at the library.
Edward Lhwyd (1659/60-1709) was a naturalist and philologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1708. Sir Hans Sloane described him as the best naturalist in Europe (Brynley F. Roberts, Lhuyd , Edward (1659/60?1709), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16633, accessed 26 June 2013]).
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Humfrey Wanley to Hans Sloane – October 12, 1701
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Date: October 12, 1701
Author: Humfrey Wanley
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 252-253
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[fol. 252] 12 Octob. 1701. Most Honor’d Sir I went yesterday to the Dean of Worcesters in order to review the remaining part of my Catalogue which I had prepared. We finished, but it was so late in the day before I could take my leave of him that I thought there would be hardly time sufficient to enter upon the Catalogue of your Books at your house. For that Reason I came directly home & applied my self to those Papers which must be Copied against to morrow knnight, some of which being very long, and to day being a broken day, (since I must attend out S— and dispatch some of their business before I meet ’em) I thought thought [sic] you coudl be better pleas’d it I should transcribe them as fast as I can. In order to this I find that I want The Translations of two Letters of Mr Leeuwenhoeck to you, dated 5 April & the 2 of August last as also the original Dissertation of Mounsier Reneaums which I translated & gave you back the last time that I had the Honor to see you. If you can find these 3 papers I intreat you, Sir, to send em by this bearer: if not, I will go forwards with the others. I find some written Accounts of Printed Books, which I supposed are inserted into the Transactions; be pleas’d to lett me know whether I should transcribe them into the Register or not. but above all, Sir, let me beg of you to do me the Justice to believe that I do not differe the finishing the Catalogue of those few of your books which I had begun, out of any inconstancy of Temper, or want of respect for you; but that I only dispatch that business first, which you said was in most hast, & consequently would have soonest done by Honor’d Sir, Your most faithful & obedient servant Humfrey 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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Archibald Pitcairne to Hans Sloane – September 29, 1701
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Date: September 29, 1701
Author: Archibald Pitcairne
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 246-247
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The bearer is a mathematician who wants to meet Sloane. Pitcairne sends a stone from the Elb River and says that he can send more if Sloane is interested. He stresses that the stone is a gift for Sloane personally, not the Royal Society. He sends a copy of his latest book.
Pitcairne was a physician and member of the Edinburgh College of Physicians. He published medical treatises and debated medical issues throughout his career (Anita Guerrini, Pitcairne, Archibald (16521713), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/22320, accessed 26 June 2013]).
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Humfrey Wanley to Hans Sloane – September 2, 1701
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Date: September 2, 1701
Author: Humfrey Wanley
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 226-227
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[fol. 226] September the 2d. 1701. Most Honor’d Sir, I fully intended to have done my self the Honor to wait on you to day, according to your kind Invitation, and to have brought the books along with me. But some Friends & Relations that I am now with, and have not seen in many years before, will needs keep me by force to dine with them to day, because their short stay will not allow us to see one another again. To night I must attend our Society, to Morrow noon, being Wednesday, I know you are engagd, but to morrow in the Evening I will wait on you at the Temple Coffee house, being Honor’d Sir Your most obliged & very humble servant Humfrey 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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John Locke to Hans Sloane – August 22, 1701
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Date: August 22, 1701
Author: John Locke
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 221-222
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Locke was a philosopher, physician, and highly influential proponent of liberalism in England (J. R. Milton, Locke, John (16321704), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16885, accessed 24 June 2013]).
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Edmund King to Hans Sloane – August 22, 1701
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Date: August 22, 1701
Author: Edmund King
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 219-220
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Sir Edmund King (bap. 1630, d. 1709) was a physician and surgeon. He published some of his research in the Philosophical Transactions (Robert L. Martensen, ‘King , Sir Edmund (bap. 1630, d. 1709)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15557, accessed 3 July 2014]).
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Edmund King to Hans Sloane – August 17, 1701
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Date: August 17, 1701
Author: Edmund King
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 217-218
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Sir Edmund King (bap. 1630, d. 1709) was a physician and surgeon. He published some of his research in the Philosophical Transactions (Robert L. Martensen, ‘King , Sir Edmund (bap. 1630, d. 1709)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15557, accessed 3 July 2014]).
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Edmund King to Hans Sloane – August 13, 1701
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Date: August 13, 1701
Author: Edmund King
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 215-216
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Sir Edmund King (bap. 1630, d. 1709) was a physician and surgeon. He published some of his research in the Philosophical Transactions (Robert L. Martensen, ‘King , Sir Edmund (bap. 1630, d. 1709)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15557, accessed 3 July 2014]).
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George Howe to Hans Sloane – August 7, 1701
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Date: August 7, 1701
Author: George Howe
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 209-210
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[fol. 209] Sr I thank you for yor acct of Mr Baron, & rejoyce in yor success. The ulcer in the neck of his bladder I reckon was not the cause of his suppression (no matter having been discharged in any of the Urine that was drawn from him when we were together) but the effect of his frequent passing the Catheter. The method he is now in pleases me well. pray give him (& Mr Bernard) my humble services Mr Peter Dockwell, his old acquaintance & friend gives him his service. I am Yor humble servt George Howe Aug. 7. 701.
Howe was a physician and involved himself in the affairs of the Royal College of Physicians becoming censor in 1707 (Charles Creighton, Howe, George (1654/51710), rev. Patrick Wallis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13952, accessed 26 June 2013]).
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Humfrey Wanley to Hans Sloane – July 31, 1701
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Date: July 31, 1701
Author: Humfrey Wanley
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 203-204
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Library, Material Culture, Scholarship, Trade or Commodities
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Subjects
Books, Booksellers, Churches, History, Roman Britain, Ruins, Specimens
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Date (as written)
July 31, 1701
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Origin (as written)
Canterbury
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Patients mentioned
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[fol. 203] Canterbury July 31 1701 Most Honorabl Sir, Since I came hither I have made it my business to enquir. for that little Tract of Mr Somner’s, which you was pleas’d to mention to me. I find that several private Gentlemen have it in their studies, but will not part with it: and it is not to be had at the Booksellers. I can’t hear of any stones, shells, Plants, Fossills, or such other souriosities, but what are in such places from whence nothing came out. But the Minister of Dover tells me that an Acquaintance of his has some such things: and by his Endeavours, I hope in time to be able to augment your store. At the Castle, there are some old Ruins, which were built long since with the Relicks & Fragments of Roman buildings. I pulled out of an Arch some Pieces of Roman Brick, which I will bring up with me next Monday for you. They are of the same sort of Clay as those in the Walls of St. Martin’s Church here, which for ought I know, may be the oldest Building now extant in England, it being the very same Church mention’d as an old one, by Venerable Bede in the Ist book of his Ecclesiastical History. Your pardon for this trouble is desired by Honor’d Sir, Your very humble & most obliged servant Humfrey 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]).