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Robert Uvedale to Hans Sloane – August 20, 1716
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Date: August 20, 1716
Author: Robert Uvedale
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 207-208
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Uvedale thanks Sloane for his many favours. He hopes to show Dr Sherard his seed collection when he returns to England.
Robert Uvedale (1642-1722) was a botanist and schoolteacher. Though he was involved in the Royal Society he never became a member. Uvedale collected specimens for his personal herbarium, which was eventually acquired by Sir Hans Sloane (G. S. Boulger, Uvedale, Robert (16421722), rev. Anita McConnell, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28042, accessed 9 June 2011]).
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Patrick Blair to Hans Sloane – August 15, 1716
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Date: August 15, 1716
Author: Patrick Blair
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: f. 205
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Blair asks Sloane if he may borrow a book.
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 Morton to Hans Sloane – August 13, 1716
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Date: August 13, 1716
Author: John Morton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 199-200
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Morton sends a collection of ‘River shell-snails of Northamptonshire’ and describes them. He considered Lister’s work on the subject.
John Morton was a naturalist who was in correspondence with Sloane from roughly 1703 to 1716. Morton contributed nearly one thousand specimens (fossils, shells, bones, teeth, minerals, rocks, man-made artifacts, etc.) to Sloane’s collection (Yolanda Foote, Morton, John (16711726), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19364, accessed 2 July 2013]).
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John Woodward to Hans Sloane – August 9, 1716
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Date: August 9, 1716
Author: John Woodward
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: f. 193
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Woodward sends a catalogue of items to be sold, but confesses: ‘I do not understand one Word of German’.
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 (1665/16681728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29946, accessed 17 June 2011]).
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John Woodward to Hans Sloane – July 28, 1716
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Date: July 28, 1716
Author: John Woodward
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 189-190
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Woodward sends the ‘Memorials of the Affair’, hoping it will be of use to Sloane while he waits for a response from Scheuchzer.
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 – July 12, 1716
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Date: July 12, 1716
Author: Arthur Charlett
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 187-188
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Royal Society, Scholarship, Social, Trade or Commodities, Travel
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Subjects
Antiquities, Coins, Exile, France, Medals, Modern Greek Language, Museums, Oxford
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Date (as written)
July 12, 1716
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Hambledon neare Henly upon Thames
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Others mentioned
Dr Bromfild Dr Cockman Dr Cofe Mr Whiteside
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Patients mentioned
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Mr Clark sends his regards. Charlett asks to be informed of anything sent to Oxford’s museum. Some prominent doctors visited Oxford. He has found what was looking for regarding the modern Greek language. Mr Clark has procured a collection of medals and coins from Paris. Charlett discusses Lord Torrington’s collection and his brother ‘the L. C. Justice’. The former has been ‘in Exile in France’.
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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Arthur Charlett to Hans Sloane – June 16, 1716
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Date: June 16, 1716
Author: Arthur Charlett
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 181-182
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Charlett relates the success of Mr Whiteside’s courses at Oxford. He requests information on the current Patriarch of Alexandria as well as any grammars or lexicons on the modern Greek language. The antiquary ‘Bunn Nullri Esq’ and Dr George Clark send their regards.
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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Humfrey Wanley to Hans Sloane – June 23, 1716
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Date: June 23, 1716
Author: Humfrey Wanley
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 178-179
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Lord Harley has instructed Wanley to thank Sloane for the manuscripts he sent.
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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Patrick Blair to Hans Sloane – June 12, 1716
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Date: June 12, 1716
Author: Patrick Blair
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 172-173
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Blair asks Sloane to seek a pardon from His Majesty for taking part in the Jacobite Rising.
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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Jean Théophile Desaguliers to Hans Sloane – June 6, 1716
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Date: June 6, 1716
Author: Jean Théophile Desaguliers
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: f. 170
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[fol. 170] June ye 6th 1716 Sir I have just finish’d this Explanation, which it was impossible for me to do sooner. I am Sir, Your most humble servant J.T. Desugliers
Desaguliers was the son of French Huguenots who quit France after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685). He was a natural philosopher and engineer, became Sir Isaac Newton’s pupil, was a proponent of Newtonianism, and performed lectures and experiments at the Royal Society (Patricia Fara, Desaguliers, John Theophilus (16831744), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7539, accessed 12 July 2013]).