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Thomas Hearne to Hans Sloane – May 22, 1716
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Date: May 22, 1716
Author: Thomas Hearne
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 163-164
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Mr Clements has paid for books on Sloane’s behalf. Hearne asks if Sloane has the ‘Chronicles of England, that are valuable and have not been published yet’. He would like to print them himself.
Thomas Hearne (bap. 1678, d. 1735) was an antiquary and diarist. He began working at the Bodleian Library in 1701. A nonjuror, his refusal to take an oath of allegiance to King George I led to his dismissal from the Bodleian in 1716. Hearne published the works of several English chroniclers (Theodor Harmsen, Hearne, Thomas (bap. 1678, d. 1735), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12827, accessed 2 June 2011]).
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Arthur Charlett to Hans Sloane – May 18, 1716
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Date: May 18, 1716
Author: Arthur Charlett
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: ff. 161-162
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Charlett informs Sloane that the ‘Philosophical Experiments’ in Mr Whiteside’s new courses at Oxford are very popular. Charlett may visit Mr Isted in Northamptonshire.
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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Alexander Stuart to Hans Sloane – November 7, 1717
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Date: November 7, 1717
Author: Alexander Stuart
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: ff. 62-63
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Stuart left Holland for Douay. He hopes the medical theses he sent by Petiver have made it to London. Stuart served Dr Wilson for a fortnight, working in an army hospital. He hopes to get a more permanent position through his contacts. The army is moving towards Ghent, so the hospital has been disbanded for a few days.
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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Samuel Dale to Hans Sloane – February 19, 1718
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Date: February 19, 1718
Author: Samuel Dale
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: ff. 99-100
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Dale returns some books, including ‘Mercurius Bot. [by Johnson] Iter Cant. and Erictum Hampsted […] Mr Buddles Collection of English Plants’ and a treatise by ‘Tabernemont’. There is one book in the bundle that was not marked by Sloane. As Sloane marks all his books, Dale believes it does not belong to him and would like to purchase it.
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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Richard Richardson to Hans Sloane – August 17, 1721
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Date: August 17, 1721
Author: Richard Richardson
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 118-119
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Richardson sends ‘game taken some by seting and others by shooting’. He hopes to send eggs in the near future and describes ‘a Cock’ kept by a man in ‘Hallyfax’.
Richardson was a physician and botanist who traveled widely in England, Wales, and Scotland in search of rare specimens. He corresponded and exchanged plants with many well-known botanists and naturalists (W. P. Courtney, Richardson, Richard (16631741), rev. Peter Davis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23576, accessed 31 May 2011]).
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John Woodward to Hans Sloane – August 5, 1718
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Date: August 5, 1718
Author: John Woodward
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: ff. 138-139
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Curiosity Reports, Scholarship
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Subjects
Amber, Animals, Books, Crocodiles, Fossils, Saxony, Specimens
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Date (as written)
August 5, 1718
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Gresham College
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Others mentioned
Johannes Heinricus Linck Johann Philipp Breyne Dr Browning Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
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Patients mentioned
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Woodward sends Scheuchzer’s new book with fossils and amber. He discusses a ‘Paper of the Crocodile digd up in Saxony’.
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 McBride to Hans Sloane – July 16, 1701
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Date: July 16, 1701
Author: John McBride
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 189-190
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McBride writes that he will boldly continue to recommend acquaintances to Sloane. He recommends the bearer, Mr Johnston.
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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James Keill to Hans Sloane – February 7, 1718/19
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Date: February 7, 1718/19
Author: James Keill
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: ff. 190-191
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Keill did not formally attend medical school, but through the patronage of Sloane he obtained the degree of MD from Cambridge. Sloane helped Keill enter into medical practice in Northampton (Anita Guerrini, Keill, James (16731719), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15255, accessed 2 June 2011]).
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John Woodward to Hans Sloane – March 27, 1722
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Date: March 27, 1722
Author: John Woodward
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: f. 222
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[fol. 222] Gr. Coll. 27. Mar. 22. Sr. I fear Mr. Woolhouse will find it very difficult to find ye Books you want. He has searchd Paris, & wrote to Monpellier, Aix, & several other Towns, in vain. But he persists: & will procure them, if so he had. The Kings Library is all on Heaps; but you may be sure of Transcripts thence, ater all. He presses much for a Catalogue of all the Books, in your Library, relating to ye Eye. He is publishing an Account of all yt has been wrote of yt Organ. There’s no Date on Georgius Valla; he desire to know where, when, & with what other Tract’s twas set forth. I am, with great Regard, Sr. Your truly faithfull humble servant. Woodward
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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James Keill to Hans Sloane – February 7, 1718/19
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Date: February 7, 1718/19
Author: James Keill
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: ff. 190-191
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Keill did not formally attend medical school, but through the patronage of Sloane he obtained the degree of MD from Cambridge. Sloane helped Keill enter into medical practice in Northampton (Anita Guerrini, Keill, James (16731719), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15255, accessed 2 June 2011]).