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John Morton to Hans Sloane – April 15, 1712
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Date: April 15, 1712
Author: John Morton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 41-42
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Morton would like to show Sloane some of Mr Hill’s medals. When going to ‘Mayers’s Coffee House’ to meet Mr Hill he happened to run into Captain Hatton, ‘who before [he] thought had been dead’. He encloses some papers related to subscription payments.
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 Arbuthnot to Hans Sloane – January 21, 1710/11
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Date: January 21, 1710/11
Author: John Arbuthnot
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: f. 234
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Arbuthnot requests that Sloane meet with Lord Archibald to provide him with advice. He will take Sloane to see Archibald at ‘one a clock’.
Lord Archibald Adams (bap. 1673-1754) served as Governor of Jamaica 1711-1716 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Archibald_Hamilton).
Arbuthnot was a physician and satirist most famous for his John Bull pamphlets which led to the character becoming a national symbol (Angus Ross, Arbuthnot , John (bap. 1667, d. 1735), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/610, accessed 14 June 2011]).
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Patrick Blair to Hans Sloane – April 28, 1712
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Date: April 28, 1712
Author: Patrick Blair
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 43-44
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Blair is working on the distribution of his treatise on elephant bones.
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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Name: N/A Gentleman's Son
Gender:
Age:
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Description
The boy has problems with his back and limbs; weakness.
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Diagnosis
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Treatment
Previous Treatment: The boy was stood in cold water being churned by a mill.
Ongoing Treatment:
Response: After 'only three or four times [having cold water poured on his body] the weakness of his back and disability of his Limbs is quite recovered.'
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Weakness, Injuries (includes wounds, sores, bruises), Back
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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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Ralph Thoresby to Hans Sloane – January 20, 1710/11
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Date: January 20, 1710/11
Author: Ralph Thoresby
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: f. 233
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Thoresby discusses a rare flower called ‘Iris Lunaris’. He relays the bizarre tale of a group of people being assaulted by a barrage of lightning in Yorkshire.
Ralph Thoresby wrote ‘The Topography of Leedes’ in 1715 and was interested in the topography of Yorkshire in general. He maintained a large collection of antiquities and other curiosities at his Musaeum Thoresbyanum in Leeds (P. E. Kell, “Thoresby, Ralph (1658-1725)”, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2006 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/27334, accessed 25 May 2011]).
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William Dawes to Hans Sloane – April 5, 1711
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Date: April 5, 1711
Author: William Dawes
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: f. 268
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Dawes asks Sloane to examine his young niece. Sloane is to meet him after four o’clock because he cannot get home from the House of Lords before then.
Sir William Dawes was a scholar, cleric, and politician actively involved in the discourses of each of these fields of interest (Stuart Handley, Dawes, Sir William, third baronet (16711724), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/7336, accessed 8 June 2011]).
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James Yonge to Hans Sloane – August 16, 1709
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Date: August 16, 1709
Author: James Yonge
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 35-38
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Yonge mentions some medical treatises that interest him.
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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William Wotton to Hans Sloane – June 8, 1712
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Date: June 8, 1712
Author: William Wotton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 53-54
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Wotton was a child prodigy, having received his BA from Oxford at the age of nine. He mastered several languages and fields of inquiry and became a member of the Royal Society in 1687 as well as being ordained in 1689. He published many works on history, theology, culture, and politics and contributed to the Philosophical Transactions (David Stoker, Wotton, William (16661727), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2007 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/30005, accessed 14 June 2011]).
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Name: N/A Anne Wotton
Gender:
Age:
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Description
Mrs Wotton suffers from diarrhea with 'swelling and [...] Heats'.
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Diagnosis
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Treatment
Previous Treatment:
Ongoing Treatment:
Response: The diarrhea went away after she took the medicine Sloane suggested.
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Blood, Head, Injuries (includes wounds, sores, bruises), Drowsiness, Memory loss, Diarrhea, Inflammations
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Arthur Charlett to Hans Sloane – June 30, 1711
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Date: June 30, 1711
Author: Arthur Charlett
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: f. 306
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Charlett describes the Duke of Ormund’s meeting with the Prince of Anhalt and the process of giving ‘public Honors from the University’. The Prince of Anhalt offers his thanks to Sloane.
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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John Morton to Hans Sloane – July 29, 1711
Item info
Date: July 29, 1711
Author: John Morton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 334-335
Original Page
Transcription
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]).