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Robert Greene to Hans Sloane – November 14, 1702
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Date: November 14, 1702
Author: Robert Greene
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 43-44
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Greene discusses mathematics. He is particularly concerned with the quadrature of curves, which Newton was working on at this time.
Robert Greene was a natural philosopher who sided with the Tories after the Glorious Revolution (1688). He went on to write anti-materialist works against Newtonian mechanical philosophy, principally in ‘The Principles of the Philosophy of the Expansive and Contractive Forces’ (1727) (John Gascoigne, Greene, Robert (c.16781730), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/11419, accessed 4 July 2013]).
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Arthur Charlett to Hans Sloane – November 1, 1708
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Date: November 1, 1708
Author: Arthur Charlett
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 237-238
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Charlett thanks Sloane for the books he sent to the library.
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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Patrick Blair to Hans Sloane – October 25, 1708
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Date: October 25, 1708
Author: Patrick Blair
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: f. 234
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Blair sends the final figures depicting the porpoise. He wants to know whether Sloane considers them worthy of publication and hopes his botanical papers will soon appear in the Philosophical Transactions.
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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Edward Lhwyd to Hans Sloane – October 17, 1708
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Date: October 17, 1708
Author: Edward Lhwyd
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 226-227
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Lhwyd sends a book, which is to be presented to the Royal Society.
Edward Lhwyd (1659/60-1709) was a naturalist and philologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1708. Sir Hans Sloane described him as the best naturalist in Europe (Brynley F. Roberts, Lhuyd , Edward (1659/60?1709), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/16633, accessed 26 June 2013]).
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James Keill to Hans Sloane – October 13, 1710
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Date: October 13, 1710
Author: James Keill
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
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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Robert Sibbald to Hans Sloane – April 15, 1710
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Date: April 15, 1710
Author: Robert Sibbald
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 124-125
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Sibbald received Sloane’s letter of April 8th, informing him of the safe arrival of Sibbald’s description of Fife. He sends 25 copies of a book, which are to be sold for ten shillings each. They were delivered to ‘the White Horse inn at Criplegate London where the New-Castle carriers Lodge’. Duglass’ translation of Virgil has been sent by the same carrier. A copy of Sibbald’s description of Fife is to be send to Dr Harris. Sibbald wrote the letter without the aid of his spectacles.
Sir Robert Sibbald was a physician and a geographer. He was physician to James VII (Charles W. J. Withers, “Sibbald, Sir Robert (1641-1722)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, May 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25496, accessed 1 June 2011]).
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John Morton to Hans Sloane – July 29, 1711
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Date: July 29, 1711
Author: John Morton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 334-335
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Morton wants to meet with Sloane next week. His family has recovered from its battle with smallpox.
John Morton was a naturalist who was in correspondence with Sloane from roughly 1703 to 1716. Morton contributed nearly one thousand specimens (fossils, shells, bones, teeth, minerals, rocks, man-made artifacts, etc.) to Sloane’s collection (Yolanda Foote, Morton, John (16711726), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/19364, accessed 2 July 2013]).
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John Stevens to Hans Sloane – January 16, 1711/12
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Date: January 16, 1711/12
Author: John Stevens
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: f. 23
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Stevens returns a book. He requests issues of the Philosophical Transactions and more books, particularly the work of ‘dr Bry of America’.
John Stevens was a translator, antiquary, one time editor of the “British Mercury”, fluent Spanish speaker, and worked on putting many church-related texts into English (G. Martin Murphy, Stevens, John (c.16621726), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/26423, accessed 13 June 2011]).
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James Keill to Hans Sloane – March 29, 1711
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Date: March 29, 1711
Author: James Keill
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: f. 267
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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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James Keill to Hans Sloane – March 25, 1711
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Date: March 25, 1711
Author: James Keill
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 264-265
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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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Name: Lord Lempster
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Lempster has been acting strangely 'ever since he fell'. He has been found 'frequently wandering... He has made a large quantity of water these three of four days'. His belly is still swollen and 'his left leg is wasted to skin and bones'. Lempster is still having difficulty breathing.
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Keill solicits Sloane's advice.
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Previous Treatment: Keill found that 'nothing did releive the quickness of his pulse and his head but bleeding'.
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Stomach, Lungs, Inflammations, Blood, Wasting