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Edward Baynard to Hans Sloane – July 16, 1698
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Date: July 16, 1698
Author: Edward Baynard
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: f. 97
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[fol. 97]
Bath July 16th 98
Dear Dr.
I am extremely glad to hear that
my Lady Reeves is so well. I think the
country Aire will this summer time
doe her more service, and a continuation
of the Course wee directed, since it had
so well hitherto agreed with her I
thinke requisite if it be allso your sentiments
I pray prevaile with her to a perseverance
my service to my Lady & my Lady Onslow
& the young Ladys and accept the same
from your humble servant
Edw: Baynard
Baynard writes that he thinks his patients should continue the therapies he had advised previously.
Edward Baynard was a physician, poet, and Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. He was a proponent of cold balneotherapy (Mark S. R. Jenner, Baynard, Edward (1641?1717), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1771, accessed 19 June 2013]).
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Thomas Dover to Hans Sloane – April 3, 1721
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Date: April 3, 1721
Author: Thomas Dover
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: f. 80
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[fol. 80]
Sr
This is to acquaint you that next Censors Day I shall appear to be examin’d in order to be admitted one of your Society yo’r Humble Serv: Tho: Dover
To Sr Hans Sloan Bart. In Great Russell Street Bloomsbury
Aprill 3:rd 1721
Thomas Dover (bap. 1662, d. 1742) was a physician, privateer, and licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians known for his ‘holistic’ remedies and criticisms of fellow physicians (Samuel Pyeatt Menefee, Dover, Thomas (bap. 1662, d. 1742), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7955, accessed 24 Aug 2011]).
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Richard Richardson to Hans Sloane – September 10, 1721
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Date: September 10, 1721
Author: Richard Richardson
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 130-131
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Richardson writes of several people who suffered from the same ailment. It fell ‘chiefly amongst the poor people’. The epidemic killed many people. Patients have a ‘depressed pulse’ and ‘malignant fever’. The man who brought the illness from Lincolnshire is still alive, but has headaches. Richardson tried to contact the Consul, but he is traveling in France and Holland. He congratulates Sloane on the success of smallpox inoculation, noting that ‘it was practised in Asia long agoe’.
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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Thomas Hyde to Hans Sloane – July 24, 1698
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Date: July 24, 1698
Author: Thomas Hyde
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 100-101
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Hyde reminds Sloane that he was supposed to have left some papers for him with Mr Chamberlayn at the Black Swan. The papers are related to an article in the Transactions on Persia and Zorostrianism. They can be left with either of the Bartlets if that is more convenient for Sloane.
Hyde was the librarian of the Bodleian Library from 1665 to 1701. He possessed excellent linguistic skills in eastern languages, especially ancient Persian and Arabic (P. J. Marshall, Hyde, Thomas (16361703), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14336, accessed 19 June 2013]).
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Richard Richardson to Hans Sloane – April 1, 1721
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Date: April 1, 1721
Author: Richard Richardson
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: f. 79
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Curiosity Reports, Material Culture, Scientific
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Subjects
Bark, Brass Instruments, Fossils, Fuels, Specimens, Stones, Trees, Tumors
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Date (as written)
April 1, 1721
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
North Bierley
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Others mentioned
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Patients mentioned
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Richardson sends ‘a large Corneouse Excrescence which grew upon the thigh of a Crow consisting of lammas’ as well as ‘the Tumour […] and Stone which was drawn out of a Womans Anus’. He mentions brass instruments recorded in ‘Hearns Antoninus’ and a fossilized tree that has its bark removed and used as fuel. He speculates as to how the tree came to have the properties of fuel.
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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Nehemiah Grew to Hans Sloane – September 13, 1698
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Date: September 13, 1698
Author: Nehemiah Grew
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: f. 116
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Grew returns some of Sloane’s books. He asks if Sloane has an article in the Transactions ‘published by Mr Oldenburge No. 60’.
Grew was a botanist and physician who, in 1677, was appointed joint secretary of the Royal Society along with Robert Hooke (Michael Hunter, Grew, Nehemiah (bap. 1641, d. 1712), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11521, accessed 11 May 2011].
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Michael Burghers to Hans Sloane – October 28, 1698
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Date: October 28, 1698
Author: Michael Burghers
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: f. 147
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Burghers forwards some engravings for Dr Lloyd’s book to Sloane.
Burghers was an engraver and draughtsman who illustrated several works of natural history in his career. He resided in Oxford (Antony Griffiths, Burghers, Michael (1647/81727), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4004, accessed 19 June 2013]).
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Charles Preston to Hans Sloane – December 3, 1698
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Date: December 3, 1698
Author: Charles Preston
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: f. 162
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Preston received the Philosophical Transactions and a manuscript catalogue. He thanks Sloane for a book on botany. One Madam Heyman provided information on a medical topic. Preston mentions some copper plates.
Preston was a physician and botanist who established a lengthy correspondence with Sloane, exchanging plants, seeds, books and information. His main interest was in botany, and was well-known by his contemporaries for his botanical knowledge (Anita Guerrini, Preston, Charles (16601711), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47084, accessed 18 June 2013]).
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Richard Richardson to Hans Sloane – September 10, 1721
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Date: September 10, 1721
Author: Richard Richardson
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 130-131
Original Page
Transcription
Richardson writes of several people who suffered from the same ailment. It fell ‘chiefly amongst the poor people’. The epidemic killed many people. Patients have a ‘depressed pulse’ and ‘malignant fever’. The man who brought the illness from Lincolnshire is still alive, but has headaches. Richardson tried to contact the Consul, but he is traveling in France and Holland. He congratulates Sloane on the success of smallpox inoculation, noting that ‘it was practised in Asia long agoe’.
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 Locke to Hans Sloane – December 2, 1699
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Date: December 2, 1699
Author: John Locke
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: f. 356*
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Locke describes his proposal to reform the English year. Namely, to omit the intercalate day and do the same for the next ten leap years, so that in 44 years the English calendar would be in line with the rest of the Christian world, ‘without prejudice or disturbance to any ones civill rights.’ He agrees with Sloane that to carry on is inexcusable in so learned an age, and in a country where astronomy is ‘carried to an higher pitch than ever it was in the world.’ Locke wishes to begin the year from 1 January. He suggests an account is published in the Philosophical Transactions on the performance of a strong man in London. The episode is to be believed because of the number of witnesses. Locke reminds Sloane that he sent him a copy of his book and requests he reads the additional chapters and inform Locke of his thoughts as payment. Locke’s proposal for calendar reform has appeared in the ‘Nouvelles de la Republique des Letters’. He believes someone overheard him talking about it and sent it to Holland to be published.
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]).