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Clopton Havers to Hans Sloane – October 25, 1699
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Date: October 25, 1699
Author: Clopton Havers
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: f. 348
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Havers thanks Sloane for lending him ‘ye two books I borrowed’ and requests several more, including: ‘de Pleuritude… Johannis falco, Chrishanus Acidelius, Hercules Bonacosous, Johannes franciscus Arma, Johannes flengelius, Sebastianus Meyerus. Shaddceus Drunus… Valerius Martinius, or any others’.
Havers was a physician and anatomist responsible for the publication of several important anatomical books (Robert L. Martensen, Havers, Clopton (16571702), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/12633, accessed 24 June 2013]).
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Charles Preston to Hans Sloane – February 23, 1700
Item info
Date: February 23, 1700
Author: Charles Preston
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 372-373
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Curiosity Reports, Library, Medical, Philosophical Transactions, Scholarship
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Subjects
Balfour Library, Botany, Catalogues, Curiosities, Drawings, Stones
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Date (as written)
February 23, 1700
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Edn. [Edinburgh]
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Others mentioned
Sir Andrew Balfour Sir James Balfour Sir Robert Sibbald
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Patients mentioned
Unnamed
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Preston read the most recent Philosophical Transactions. He has some botanical catalogues for Sloane. A stone was found in a woman’s pelvis. He provides ‘figures of the stones’ for Sloane. A catalogue of Balfour’s Library is to be published.
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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Charles Preston to Hans Sloane – February 23, 1700
Item info
Date: February 23, 1700
Author: Charles Preston
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 372-373
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Curiosity Reports, Library, Medical, Philosophical Transactions, Scholarship
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Subjects
Balfour Library, Botany, Catalogues, Curiosities, Drawings, Stones
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Date (as written)
February 23, 1700
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Edn. [Edinburgh]
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Others mentioned
Sir Andrew Balfour Sir James Balfour Sir Robert Sibbald
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Patients mentioned
Unnamed
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Transcription
Preston read the most recent Philosophical Transactions. He has some botanical catalogues for Sloane. A stone was found in a woman’s pelvis. He provides ‘figures of the stones’ for Sloane. A catalogue of Balfour’s Library is to be published.
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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Charles Preston to Hans Sloane – February 23, 1700
Item info
Date: February 23, 1700
Author: Charles Preston
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 372-373
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Curiosity Reports, Library, Medical, Philosophical Transactions, Scholarship
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Subjects
Balfour Library, Botany, Catalogues, Curiosities, Drawings, Stones
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Date (as written)
February 23, 1700
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Edn. [Edinburgh]
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Others mentioned
Sir Andrew Balfour Sir James Balfour Sir Robert Sibbald
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Patients mentioned
Unnamed
Original Page
Transcription
Preston read the most recent Philosophical Transactions. He has some botanical catalogues for Sloane. A stone was found in a woman’s pelvis. He provides ‘figures of the stones’ for Sloane. A catalogue of Balfour’s Library is to be published.
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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Arthur Charlett to Hans Sloane – October 7, 1719
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Date: October 7, 1719
Author: Arthur Charlett
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: ff. 252-253
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Charlett congratulates Sloane on becoming President of the Royal College of Physicians. He writes that he was supposed to meet Mrs Cadogan, but their plans changed and she is going to visit him in Oxford. He describes the ‘Festival at Redding’, which was attended by the Wardens of All Souls and St John’s Colleges. Members of Parliament were invited too. He visited Dr Hudson, who had dropsy, and the Bishop of Bristol.
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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Thomas Bury to Hans Sloane – November 27, 1719
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Date: November 27, 1719
Author: Thomas Bury
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: ff. 269-270
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Thomas Bury (bap. 1652, d. 1722) was a judge, appointed to the bench by both Queen Anne and George I. He was sympathetic to the whigs and given the position of chief baron of the exchequer in 1716, and member of the Royal Society in 1718 (Stuart Handley, Bury, Sir Thomas (bap. 1652, d. 1722), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4155, accessed 17 Aug 2011]).
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Samuel Morland to Hans Sloane – April 30, 1722
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Date: April 30, 1722
Author: Samuel Morland
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 236-237
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Morland is glad Sloane considers him a friend. He reminds Sloane of his interest in botany. He plans on reviewing his father’s notes with a view to publishing a botanical treatise.
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 Woodward to Hans Sloane – January, 1721/22
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Date: January, 1721/22
Author: John Woodward
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: f. 196
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[fol. 196] Sr I intreat ye Favour of You to lay out for me that Cardinals Book that you mentiond, as also F. Kirchers, de Peste: & I will send for them, & restore them safe tomorrow. Be pleasd likewise to look whether you have Geo. Valla de Natura Oculorum. I am Sr Your most faithfull humble Servant Woodward Gres. Coll. […] Jan. 1721[/22].
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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Thomas Hearne to Hans Sloane – September 24, 1719
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Date: September 24, 1719
Author: Thomas Hearne
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: ff. 248-249
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Hearne informs Sloane that he received payment for the copies of ‘Guilielmi Neubrigensis Historia’ from Mr Clements.
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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Thomas Hearne to Hans Sloane – September 22, 1719
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Date: September 22, 1719
Author: Thomas Hearne
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: ff. 246-247
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Hearne sends more copies of the ‘Guilielmi Neubrigensis Historia’.
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]).