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George Ashe to Hans Sloane – March 9, 1712/13
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Date: March 9, 1712/13
Author: George Ashe
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: f. 129
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Ashe asks Sloane to transcribe Mr Molyneaux’s poem, which was written after he viewed Sloane’s collection. Ashe would like a copy of it.
Ashe was the Bishop of Derry for the Church of Ireland and a scholar (Hermann J. Real, Ashe, St George (16581718), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/750, accessed 16 June 2011]).
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John Thomas Woolhouse to Hans Sloane – November 15, 1722
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Date: November 15, 1722
Author: John Thomas Woolhouse
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: f. 311
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Woolhouse forwards a package from Scheuchzer. He could not find the two books Sloane requested, but will look for others ‘in return for Georgius Valla’. He reports that Woodworth’s cabinet of curiosities is the talk of Paris, though from what he understands it actually belongs to Gresham College. Woolhouse told Abbé Bignon that the collection belongs to the College.
John Thomas Woolhouse was an English oculist and physician. He practiced physic in London, served James II for a time, and in 1711 secured a position at Paris’s Hospice des Quinze-Vingts. He served as the King of France’s oculist, was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1721, and a member of both the Berlin Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Sciences of Bologna. Woolhouse was criticized for charlatanry by some contemporaries (Anita McConnell, Woolhouse, John Thomas (16661734), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29954, accessed 17 July 2013]).
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John Misaubin to Hans Sloane – June 5, 1722
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Date: June 5, 1722
Author: John Misaubin
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 245-246
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Misaubin has a high regard for Sloane. He asks that Sloane visit one of his female patients. Misaubin can be reached at his residence.
John Misaubin was a French physician who settled in London some time after 1697. He married the daughter of Louis XIV’s apothecary and became a licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1719. He left no writings, but is mentioned in contemporaneous literature (Norman Moore, Misaubin, John (16731734), rev. Michael Bevan, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/18819, accessed 17 July 2013]).
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Samuel Morland to Hans Sloane – April 25, 1722
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Date: April 25, 1722
Author: Samuel Morland
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 232-233
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Morland will return the ‘Caesalpinus wth Petivers notes’, which a relation of his borrowed from Sloane. He is interested in botany and hopes to be counted among Sloane’s friends. Morland would like to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on account of his being the son of a Fellow.
Morland was the nephew of Sir Samuel Morland, diplomat and natural philosopher (Alan Marshall, Morland, Sir Samuel, first baronet (16251695), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19282, accessed 1 Sept 2011]).
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John Beaumont to Hans Sloane – April 27, 1722
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Date: April 27, 1722
Author: John Beaumont
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 234-235
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Beaumont received some notes on ‘Virgil’s fourth Eclogues’. He would like to borrow some of Sloane’s books.
John Beaumont was a natural philosopher, geologist, translator, and writer who contributed specimens to the Royal Society’s collection (Scott Mandelbrote, Beaumont, John (c.16401731), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1876, accessed 1 Sept 2011]).
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Edmund King to Hans Sloane – August 6, 1701
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Date: August 6, 1701
Author: Edmund King
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 207-208
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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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John Thomas Woolhouse to Hans Sloane – June 2, 1722
Item info
Date: June 2, 1722
Author: John Thomas Woolhouse
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: f. 244
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Language
French
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Library, Scholarship, Scientific, Social, Trade or Commodities
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Subjects
Books, France, Maladie de Marseilles, Memories de l'Academie, Ophthalmology, Plague
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Date (as written)
June 2, 1722
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
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Others mentioned
Andreas Walla Geoffroy Dr Sherard
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Patients mentioned
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Andreas Walla sends his regards to Sloane. Woolhouse returns two books that could not be found in France. There was some difficulty in procuring and sending the Academie des sciences’s Memoires de l’Academie. He praises Sloane’s library as one of the best in Europe and requests several books on ophthalmology, including the ‘Madagascard traitant d’une Centaine de Maladies des Yeux’. Trade has resumed in Marseilles after the abatement of the Great Plague (1720-21). Several new treatises on the plague are in print.
John Thomas Woolhouse was an English oculist and physician. He practiced physic in London, served James II for a time, and in 1711 secured a position at Paris’s Hospice des Quinze-Vingts. He served as the King of France’s oculist, was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1721, and a member of both the Berlin Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Sciences of Bologna. Woolhouse was criticized for charlatanry by some contemporaries (Anita McConnell, Woolhouse, John Thomas (16661734), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/29954, accessed 17 July 2013]).
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Arthur Charlett to Hans Sloane – May 17, 1715
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Date: May 17, 1715
Author: Arthur Charlett
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: f. 45
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Charlett asks how the curiosities listed in the catalogue might be purchased by the university. The items would be put in the university’s museum.
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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Robert Sibbald to Hans Sloane – May 14, 1701
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Date: May 14, 1701
Author: Robert Sibbald
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 167-168
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Reverend Alexander Edward is to travel through England and the Low Countries. He wantts to meet with Sloane and carries poetry and manuscripts that might be of interest. Sibbald recommends Littleton and Porterfield. He thanks Sloane for the Philosophical Transactions.
Sibbald was a physician and a geographer. He was physician to James VII (Charles W. J. Withers, Sibbald, Sir Robert (16411722), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25496, accessed 19 June 2013]).
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Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu to Hans Sloane – April 21, 1701
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Date: April 21, 1701
Author: Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 162-163
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Montagu wtites that he is in a good state and life outside of London is quieter.
Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montague (bap. 1638, d. 1709) was an English courtier, diplomat, and patron of the arts. He was elected to Parliament both before and after the Glorious Revolution (Edward Charles Metzger, Montagu, Ralph, first duke of Montagu (bap. 1638, d. 1709), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19030, accessed 25 June 2013]).