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James Yonge to Hans Sloane – June 20, 1714
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Date: June 20, 1714
Author: James Yonge
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: f. 265
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Yonge has heard that the Bishop of Worcester accidentally swallowed a significant amount of Laudanum and survived. He would like to know whether the rumour is true.
James Yonge was a surgeon and physician of Plymouth with experience as a ship’s surgeon. He was a prominent citizen in his native Plymouth and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1702 (Ian Lyle, Yonge, James (16471721), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30225, accessed 20 May 2011]).
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Henry Newton to Hans Sloane – June 5, 1714
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Date: June 5, 1714
Author: Henry Newton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 258-259
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[fol. 258] June. 5. 1714.
Sr,
I thanke You for your last fav’r by Sr Isaack Newton, but am forc’d to give You a new trouble, having receiv’d the inclos’d this morning from Florence, being wrott by the gentleman who is publishing Mr Hauksbees Experiments there in Italian, to which I beg an answer at your leasure to, Sr, Your most humble obleig’d Servant Hen. Newton
Newton was a diplomat who worked extensively in the Italian states. He published several works in Latin while in Italy and was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1709 (Stuart Handley, Newton, Sir Henry (16501715), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/20058, accessed 15 June 2011]).
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James Yonge to Hans Sloane – May 30, 1714
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Date: May 30, 1714
Author: James Yonge
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 254-255
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Yonge thanks Sloane for offering to send issues of the Philosophical Transactions, instructing him to do so by penny post.
James Yonge was a surgeon and physician of Plymouth with experience as a ship’s surgeon. He was a prominent citizen in his native Plymouth and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1702 (Ian Lyle, Yonge, James (16471721), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30225, accessed 20 May 2011]).
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Peter Anthony Motteux to Hans Sloane – May 26, 1714
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Date: May 26, 1714
Author: Peter Anthony Motteux
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: f. 253
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Motteux forwards a catalogue of items for sale.
Peter Anthony Motteux translated many French works into English, authoring many works himself, as well as publishing in the press (David Hopkins, Motteux, Peter Anthony (16631718), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19423, accessed 22 June 2011]).
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James Yonge to Hans Sloane – May 23, 1714
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Date: May 23, 1714
Author: James Yonge
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 251-252
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Yonge received Sloane’s letter from January. He discusses the ‘making oil of Beach Moss’, which has been causing a lot of talk and asks for an issue of the Philosophical Transactions.
James Yonge was a surgeon and physician of Plymouth with experience as a ship’s surgeon. He was a prominent citizen in his native Plymouth and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society and member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1702 (Ian Lyle, Yonge, James (16471721), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30225, accessed 20 May 2011]).
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Patrick Blair to Hans Sloane – May 22, 1714
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Date: May 22, 1714
Author: Patrick Blair
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: f. 250
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Blair’s friends urged him to solicit the Royal Society’s blessing before publishing his work on the natural history of Scotland, even though he received encouragement from the universities of St Andrews and Aberdeen. He will send an outline of the treatise for Sloane to review.
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 Woodward to Hans Sloane – February 20, 1713/14
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Date: February 20, 1713/14
Author: John Woodward
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: f. 233
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[fol. 233] Gr. Coll. Feb. 20. 1713 Sr This is Mr. Honblons Narrative. You had had it, according to my Promise, sooner, but twas mislaid, & not found till now. You know a Thing of this sort is not properly a Subject of Publick Discourse. When you have read it, be pleased to send it me back. I am s’r. your very humble serv’t. Woodward To Dr. Sloane.
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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Charles Trimnell to Hans Sloane – December 16, 1714
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Date: December 16, 1714
Author: Charles Trimnell
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: f. 318
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Trimnell returns Sloane’s book, which he had in his possession for four years, and apologizes for keeping it so long.
Charles Trimnell (bap. 1663, d. 1723) was the Bishop of Winchester and served as Chaplin-in-Ordinary to William III and Queen Anne (W. M. Jacob, Trimnell, Charles (bap. 1663, d. 1723), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27742, accessed 23 June 2011]).
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George Hickes to Hans Sloane – February 20, 1713/14
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Date: February 20, 1713/14
Author: George Hickes
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: f. 230
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Hickes forwards an account of a medical cure, which he believes will interest Sloane and the Royal Society.
George Hickes (1642-1715) was a bishop of the nonjuring Church of England and Anglo-Saxon scholar (Theodor Harmsen, ‘Hickes, George (1642–1715)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13203, accessed 21 June 2011]).
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William Derham to Hans Sloane – February 15, 1713/14
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Date: February 15, 1713/14
Author: William Derham
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 227-228
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[fol. 228]
[…] & Hond Sr Upmr Feb: 15 1713/4
[…]r Barret acquaints me yt you
[…]tched at Lambeth some business
[…]ne: which I guess to be an In-
[..]ssion for Boyls Lectures next
[…] If so, it is very seasonable
[…] great service to me, wch I shall
[…]k my self much obliged to
[…] & any other of my friends for
[…]bot told me, yt after this year
[…]ersen should be free for it; &
[…]e if his Grace should demur
[…]hat, it may easily be answered
[…] written to Mr Barret to de-
[…]ur Lr to me about the mat-
[…] at Mr Innys being now with
[…] could not forbear giving you
[…]ouble of this to Thank you, &
[…] you to tell me wt the AB said
[…] his inclinations are to
Yours eternally W. Derham
I am in great hast going would tell
you what views I have had of 2 thro my
126 foot Glass: but Mr Innys saw him thro
my 30 foot Glass, & will tell you he hath
but one Satellite appears at present. Have
you sent Blatch his instructions.
The manuscript is damaged. Derham was a Church of England clergyman and a natural philosopher, interested in nature, mathematics, and philosophy. He frequently requested medical advice from Sloane, and likely served as a physician to his family and parishioners (Marja Smolenaars, Derham, William (16571735), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7528, accessed 7 June 2011]).