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Jean-Paul Bignon to Hans Sloane – January 25, 1728
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Date: January 25, 1728
Author: Jean-Paul Bignon
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4049
Folio: ff. 95-96
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Language
French
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Curiosity Reports, Library, Scholarship, Trade or Commodities
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Subjects
Academie des sciences, Bibliotheque du Roi, Books, Booksellers, Poison
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Date (as written)
January 25, 1728
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
a Paris
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Others mentioned
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Patients mentioned
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Bignon compliments Sloane and thanks him for his last letter. He and the Académie des sciences found the account of the experiment involving poison very curious. Bignon wants to collect more books from foreign lands for the ‘Bibliotheque du Roy’. Despite the setbacks in organizing the King’s library, he is making every effort to succeed and add what is missing from the collection. Bignon asks Sloane to help him by providing a list of contacts in England and abroad.
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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John Burnet to Hans Sloane – February 7, 1727/28
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Date: February 7, 1727/28
Author: John Burnet
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4049
Folio: ff. 101-102
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Burnet informs Sloane that he is ‘still in the land of the liveling’. ‘Mr. Nescomb’ told him that Sloane is still doing favours for him. Burnet passes on his thanks.
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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Elisha Smith to Hans Sloane – February 10, 1727/28
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Date: February 10, 1727/28
Author: Elisha Smith
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4049
Folio: ff. 106-107
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Smith describes a flood along ‘that branch of ye River here wch runs from Peterborough to Wisbech’. According to Smith, ’40 or 50 Thousand Acres (a great deal 4 feet deep)’ have flooded. An area of land that used to produce corn has been ‘under Water for 3 years past’.
Elisha Smith was a Lecturer at Wisbech and Rector of Tydd St. Giles, Lincolnshire.
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Louis Leon Pajot, Comte d' Ons-en-Bray to Hans Sloane – February 11, 1728
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Date: February 11, 1728
Author: Louis Leon Pajot, Comte d' Ons-en-Bray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4049
Folio: f. 108
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Pajot forwards a package from De Jussieu and sends his best.
Louis Leon Pajot (1678-1753) was a Parisian physician. He collected natural and mechanical curiosities, which attracted many visitors including Peter the Great. He made contributions to the Memoires de l’Academie des Sciences and was of member of the said organization (Gaspard Monge, Jean-Dominique Cassini, Pierre Bertholon, and Jean-Henri Hassenfratz, ‘Encyclopedie methodique ou par ordre de matieres: dictionnaire de physique, Volume 4’ (Hotel de Thou, 1822), 231).
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Philip Rose to Hans Sloane – February 29, 1728
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Date: February 29, 1728
Author: Philip Rose
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4049
Folio: ff. 123-124
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Rose reminds Sloane that he was admitted a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1691. He requests that the College support him financially during his illness.
Philip Rose was admitted a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1691. In 1728 he was forgiven 12 pounds owed to the College (http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/3854).
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Louis Leon Pajot, Comte d' Ons-en-Bray to Hans Sloane – June 25, 1727
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Date: June 25, 1727
Author: Louis Leon Pajot, Comte d' Ons-en-Bray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4048
Folio: f. 315
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Pajot and Bernard de Jussieu had a conversation on the beauty of Sloane’s cabinet. He sends his regards and a package from De Jussieu.
Louis Leon Pajot (1678-1753) was a Parisian physician. He collected natural and mechanical curiosities, which attracted many visitors including Peter the Great. He made contributions to the Memoires de l’Academie des Sciences and was of member of the said organization (Gaspard Monge, Jean-Dominique Cassini, Pierre Bertholon, and Jean-Henri Hassenfratz, ‘Encyclopedie methodique ou par ordre de matieres: dictionnaire de physique, Volume 4’ (Hotel de Thou, 1822), 231).
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Louis Leon Pajot, Comte d' Ons-en-Bray to Hans Sloane – March 3, 1728
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Date: March 3, 1728
Author: Louis Leon Pajot, Comte d' Ons-en-Bray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4049
Folio: f. 125
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Pajot received Sloane’s letter of thanks for the seeds sent by De Jussieu. He assures Sloane that he forwarded the letters to Abbé Bignon and De Jussieu.
Louis Leon Pajot (1678-1753) was a Parisian physician. He collected natural and mechanical curiosities, which attracted many visitors including Peter the Great. He made contributions to the Memoires de l’Academie des Sciences and was of member of the said organization (Gaspard Monge, Jean-Dominique Cassini, Pierre Bertholon, and Jean-Henri Hassenfratz, ‘Encyclopedie methodique ou par ordre de matieres: dictionnaire de physique, Volume 4’ (Hotel de Thou, 1822), 231).
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Joseph Kenworthy to Hans Sloane – March 24, 1728
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Date: March 24, 1728
Author: Joseph Kenworthy
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4049
Folio: ff. 131-132
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Kenworthy informs Sloane that he is delivering a letter from Dr Breyne. He offers his service ‘if here or in any part of the East Sea you have any thing to command’. If Sloane has anything to send to Breyne he is to leave it with Mr Symons, ‘the bookseller in Cornhill’.
Joseph Kenworthy was a merchant.
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Thomas Dereham to Hans Sloane – March 27, 1728
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Date: March 27, 1728
Author: Thomas Dereham
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4049
Folio: ff. 133-134
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Dereham is glad Sloane and the Royal Society received his letters. He hopes to send Sloane a copy of ‘Rizetti de Luminis affectionibus’. ‘Hence forward the Giornali de Letterati of Venice shall be sent over as they come out’. Dereham has been in contact with James Jurin and is worried some books he sent to the Royal Society did not arrive. Eustachio Manfredi congratulates Sloane on his becoming President of the Royal Society. Manfredi’s ‘Metheorological Observations’ will be of interest to the Royal Society. Dereham will do what Mr Derham asked of him in due time.
Sir Thomas Dereham (c. 1678-1739) was a British expatriate and Roman Catholic who lived in Italy. He had a close association with the Royal Society (https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27dereham%27%29).
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John Wynter to Hans Sloane – August 26, 1728
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Date: August 26, 1728
Author: John Wynter
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4049
Folio: ff. 221-222
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Wynter writes that ‘The comonwelath of Learning’ is a public duty. He encloses a letter from the Bodleian Library. Wynter wrote to Caius College, but has not received an answer. He requests that Sloane have his personal librarian, John Gaspar Scheuchzer, undertake some research. All is well in Bath.
John Wynter was the Duke of Portland’s physician.