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John Welbe to Hans Sloane – November 9, 1716
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Date: November 9, 1716
Author: John Welbe
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: f. 241
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Welbe sends a medical recipe. He asks for Sloane’s answer regarding his plan to travel to Australia.
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John Burnet to Hans Sloane – November 30, 1716
Item info
Date: November 30, 1716
Author: John Burnet
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4044
Folio: f. 250
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Social, Trade or Commodities, Travel
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Subjects
Jamaica, Medical Practice, Panama, Shells, Shipping, Specimens, Surgery
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Date (as written)
November 30, 1716
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Kingstown
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Others mentioned
Capt. Wilks
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Patients mentioned
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Burnet is planning on sending some shells he collected with Captain Wilks. He details the expenses incurred while working as a surgeon in Jamaica. Burnet wants to be moved to Panama as ‘it is much more healthfull than Portobello’.
John Burnet worked for the South Sea Company in the West Indies and later served as the Physician to King Philip V of Spain.
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John Mason to Hans Sloane – June 11, 1717
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Date: June 11, 1717
Author: John Mason
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: ff. 9-10
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Transcription
Mason informs Sloane that he cannot wait on him as arranged. Something has come up.
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Richard Harris to Hans Sloane – August 22, 1717
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Date: August 22, 1717
Author: Richard Harris
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: f. 37
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Transcription
Harris informs Sloane that he has come to possess a tortoise and another exotic animal. He wants to know if Sloane would like to examine them.
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Richard Middleton Massey to Hans Sloane – August 26, 1717
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Date: August 26, 1717
Author: Richard Middleton Massey
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: ff. 38-39
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Massey asks Sloane to help him procure a patent for his mustard oil.
Richard Middleton Massey (1678-1743) attended Brasenose College, Oxford but left before obtaining a degree. In 1706 he was admitted Extra-Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians and settled in Wisbech where he practiced medicine. Massey was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1712. He compiled the catalogue of the library of the Royal College of Physicians in 1727 (http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/2969).
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J. Stanley to Hans Sloane – February 4, 1718
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Date: February 4, 1718
Author: J. Stanley
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: f. 98
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[fol. 98r]
Sr.
Pursuant to an Order of Councill
My Lord Chamberlain desires you to attend at
Kensington wth other physitians Appointed to
Morrow Morning at Eleven a Clock to be present
at the opening the Body of his highness Prince
George William and that you bring Your
Report thereof to his Grace, to be said before
the Councill.
I am
Sr.
yr most humble servt
J Stanley
Prince George William died, aged just over three months. The child’s baptism created a family quarrel, which resulted in suspicions about the cause of his death (that it was separation from his mother). The Lord Chancellor, the Duke of Newcastle, was also one of his godparents. ‘Kensington’ likely refers to Kensington Palace, where he had been living at his death.
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Philip Lloyd to Hans Sloane – February 21, 1700
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Date: February 21, 1700
Author: Philip Lloyd
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: f. 137
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Lloyd is in Newgate Prison and begs Sloane to come to his aid. He writes it would be ‘the greatest Charity to assist innocence’. See Sloane MS 4038 ff. 303-304 for an explanation of Lloyd’s predicament.
Philip Lloyd was a physician.
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Jean Anisson to Hans Sloane – June 23, 1714
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Date: June 23, 1714
Author: Jean Anisson
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: f. 266
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Anisson suggests that he and Sloane communicate via penny post, for he again missed Sloane when he went to his home. He asks for information on ‘Kinkina’, which he is to collect for Mr Foquier. Anisson has forwarded the books to Abbe Bignon.
Jean Anisson (1642-1721) was the director of the Imprimerie royale du Louvre between 1691 and 1705 (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Anisson).
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Jean-Paul Bignon to Hans Sloane – March 13, 1714
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Date: March 13, 1714
Author: Jean-Paul Bignon
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 236-237
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Bignon is glad the reestablishment of commerce between England and France will allow their letters to reach each other. He thanks Sloane for sending Mr Boyle’s lectures.
Jean-Paul Bignon (1662-1743) was a clergyman, librarian to Louis XIV, member of the Academie francaise, and mentor of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Paul_Bignon).
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William Fraser to Hans Sloane – 1717
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Date: 1717
Author: William Fraser
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: f. 82
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[fol. 82]
This inclosed Letter from Doctor Martini at Riga I left with some other Papers in the hurry of my Journey at Hambourgh, from whence I received it but lately. if you have any Commands Sr for the Doctor please to send yor Letter for him to me to be left at Robins Coffehouse in Change Alley and I Shall not fail to forward it to him. I am Sir Yor most humble Servant Wm. Fraser
For Martini’s letter, see: Sloane MS 4045, fols. 83-84.