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Johann Georg Steigertahl to Hans Sloane – August 27, 1728
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Date: August 27, 1728
Author: Johann Georg Steigertahl
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4049
Folio: ff. 223-224
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Steigertahl has received several short treatises. His wife has been reading them along with the latest English gazettes, sent by Mr Jäger. She sends her compliments to Sloane. Mr Rosinus and his brother have died. The latter took care of Mr Rosinus’ cabinet. Mr Hugo informed Steigertahl that the inheritors of Rosinus’ estate want to sell the collection. He believes the catalogue will soon be published and that the collection is valued at ‘quatre mille Ecus’. He will send word when he learns more.
Johann Georg Steigertahl (1666-1740) was the personal physician to George I of England. He was a member of the Royal Society and secured the purchase of Engelbert Kaempfer’s collection of East Asian curiosities for Sir Hans Sloane in 1723 (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Steigerthal).
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Johann Georg Steigertahl to Hans Sloane – August 27, 1728
Item info
Date: August 27, 1728
Author: Johann Georg Steigertahl
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4049
Folio: ff. 223-224
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Language
French
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Material Culture, Medical, Scholarship, Trade or Commodities
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Subjects
Cabinet, Curiosities, Medals, Quinquina
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Date (as written)
August 27, 1728
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Hannover
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Others mentioned
M. Hugo George I Mr Jager Mrs Steigertahl Wife
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Patients mentioned
Frederick, Prince of Wales
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Steigertahl has received several short treatises. His wife has been reading them along with the latest English gazettes, sent by Mr Jäger. She sends her compliments to Sloane. Mr Rosinus and his brother have died. The latter took care of Mr Rosinus’ cabinet. Mr Hugo informed Steigertahl that the inheritors of Rosinus’ estate want to sell the collection. He believes the catalogue will soon be published and that the collection is valued at ‘quatre mille Ecus’. He will send word when he learns more.
Johann Georg Steigertahl (1666-1740) was the personal physician to George I of England. He was a member of the Royal Society and secured the purchase of Engelbert Kaempfer’s collection of East Asian curiosities for Sir Hans Sloane in 1723 (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Steigerthal).
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Johann Georg Steigertahl to Hans Sloane – August 27, 1728
Item info
Date: August 27, 1728
Author: Johann Georg Steigertahl
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4049
Folio: ff. 223-224
Original Page
Transcription
Steigertahl has received several short treatises. His wife has been reading them along with the latest English gazettes, sent by Mr Jäger. She sends her compliments to Sloane. Mr Rosinus and his brother have died. The latter took care of Mr Rosinus’ cabinet. Mr Hugo informed Steigertahl that the inheritors of Rosinus’ estate want to sell the collection. He believes the catalogue will soon be published and that the collection is valued at ‘quatre mille Ecus’. He will send word when he learns more.
Johann Georg Steigertahl (1666-1740) was the personal physician to George I of England. He was a member of the Royal Society and secured the purchase of Engelbert Kaempfer’s collection of East Asian curiosities for Sir Hans Sloane in 1723 (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Steigerthal).
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Johann Georg Steigertahl to Hans Sloane – August 27, 1728
Item info
Date: August 27, 1728
Author: Johann Georg Steigertahl
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4049
Folio: ff. 223-224
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Language
French
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Material Culture, Medical, Scholarship, Trade or Commodities
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Subjects
Cabinet, Curiosities, Medals, Quinquina
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Date (as written)
August 27, 1728
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Hannover
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Others mentioned
M. Hugo George I Mr Jager Mrs Steigertahl Wife
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Patients mentioned
Frederick, Prince of Wales
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Transcription
Steigertahl has received several short treatises. His wife has been reading them along with the latest English gazettes, sent by Mr Jäger. She sends her compliments to Sloane. Mr Rosinus and his brother have died. The latter took care of Mr Rosinus’ cabinet. Mr Hugo informed Steigertahl that the inheritors of Rosinus’ estate want to sell the collection. He believes the catalogue will soon be published and that the collection is valued at ‘quatre mille Ecus’. He will send word when he learns more.
Johann Georg Steigertahl (1666-1740) was the personal physician to George I of England. He was a member of the Royal Society and secured the purchase of Engelbert Kaempfer’s collection of East Asian curiosities for Sir Hans Sloane in 1723 (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Steigerthal).
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Pierre Louis Maupertuis to Hans Sloane – September 4, 1728
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Date: September 4, 1728
Author: Pierre Louis Maupertuis
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4049
Folio: ff. 227-228
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Maupertuis thanks Sloane for hospitably receiving him during his stay in London. He sends his compliments to Mr Scheuchzer.
Pierre Louis Maupertuis (1698-1759) was a French mathematician, philosopher, and man of letters. He was the Director of the Académie des Sciences and the first President of the Prussian Academy of Science at the invitation of Frederick the Great (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Louis_Maupertuis).
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Jean-Paul Bignon to Hans Sloane – August 29, 1727
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Date: August 29, 1727
Author: Jean-Paul Bignon
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4049
Folio: ff. 24-25
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Abbé Bignon thanks Sloane for his letter and assures him that his orders have been carried out. He praises Sloane’s commitment to natural history and medicine. Bignon suggests that an unspecified piece of writing, sent with this letter, should be published.
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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Catherine Sabina Stevens to Hans Sloane – April 5, 1727
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Date: April 5, 1727
Author: Catherine Sabina Stevens
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4048
Folio: f. 277
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Stevens reminds Sloane that he met her brother John. She writes in memory of Mr Kiligrae, informing Sloane of some shells in her possession. Stevens does not know when they were collected, only that it was her eldest brother, the commander of a ship of war, who gathered them. She suggests that it was before 1699. Stevens has little use for the shells and is willing to show them to Sloane.
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Signature Missing to Hans Sloane – November 20, 1728
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Date: November 20, 1728
Author: Signature Missing
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4050
Folio: f. 8
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The author possesses ‘the Bills of Mortality of many foreign Cities’. The quality of such reports, even that of London, is less than adequate. The author suggests that Sloane ‘propose to a General Court of your Company a regulation of the said Bill by adding an other Column for the specification of Death’. Including the cause of death would ‘be a great service done to the Publick’.
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Philip Henry Zollman to Hans Sloane – November 17, 1725
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Date: November 17, 1725
Author: Philip Henry Zollman
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4048
Folio: ff. 90-91
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[fol. 90]
Stockholm 17th Nov. 1725. O.S.
Sir
I have taken the opportunity of a Ship’s sailing for England (which probably may be the last for this season) to send you a wooden Box containing part of the Books you desired, not having been able to meet with all. The Ship’s Name is The Dicky of Ramsgate, Robert Friend Master, who set sail on the 11th instant. I had every thing ready but was advertised so late, that the Master in the hurry forgot to give me a Receipt. However as Mss’rs Grainger and Wordsworth took care to get the Box directed to you and put on board with other goods of their own, I do not doubt but it will be safely delivered. I added to the Books you desired, a Folio of Peringskiold’s, relating to the Genealogies of the Swedish King, published, as I believe, since his death, which as it serves for an Explanation of the large Genealogy in Print which you ordered me to buy, I hope you will approve of my exceeding your Commission so far. You will find in the same Box a Parcel sealed up by Dr Benzelius, who is at present in Town and presents his respects to you. These which I bought I got washed in glue water, as is usual in these Countries by reason of the bad Paper, and also stitched: which expense I hope you will likewise allow, the rather because the Prints seem’d to require it. As Dr Benzelius cannot tell me yet what he laid out for his Parcel, I must deferr sending the accompt till another time. Some weeks ago I sent a Packet recommended to me by Dr Benzelius from Upsal, by Mr Spear the King’s Messenger, to Hanover, from whence he promised to get it forwarded to you to London. One of the enclosed is a Memorandum, which Colonel Bassewith the King’s Minister here
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for the affairs of his Majesty’s Electorate, desired me to transmit to some learned Antiquary in England. I take the liberty to recommend the Resolution of his Querries to you. He is a Gentleman well versed in the Antiquities of this Country, a great friend of Dr Benzelius, and may be serviceable in his turn on the like occasion.
By the next Messenger I shall send Trimestre 11’dum Actorum Upsaliensium 1725. At present I conclude with my most ardent wishes for your health and welfare, and the assurances of my being with the greatest respects and gratitude
Sir
Your most humble and
most obedient servant
P.H. Zollman
Philip Henry Zollman (c. 1680-1748) was the Royal Society’s first Assistant Secretary for Foreign Correspondence, a post he assumed in 1723. He first landed in England in 1714, was trained in several foreign languages, and regularly corresponded with Leibniz (Derek Massarell, ‘Philip Henry Zollman, the Royal Society’s First Assistant Secretary for Foreign Correspondence’, Notes and Records of the Royal Society of London 46, no. 2 (1992), 219-234).
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Johann Georg Steigertahl to Hans Sloane – September 7, 1725
Item info
Date: September 7, 1725
Author: Johann Georg Steigertahl
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4048
Folio: ff. 55-58
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Language
French
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Medical, Scholarship, Scientific, Trade or Commodities
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Subjects
Hunting, Inoculation, Japan, Manuscripts, Royal Family, Smallpox, Weather
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Date (as written)
September 7, 1725
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
a Hannover
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Others mentioned
Prof. Engelbrecht George I J.H. Kaempfer Philip Henry Zollman Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
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Patients mentioned
Engelbrecht
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Steigertahl forwards J.H. Kaempfer’s response regarding the sale of his manuscripts, though he forgot to include a price. Dr Scheuchzer and P.H. Zollman are to take care of the finalization of the purchase of Engelbert Kaempfer’s ‘Histoire du Japon’. The King is well and went hunting. It continues to rain in Hanover. Steigertahl updates Sloane on the smallpox inoculations recounted in his previous letter: Sloane MS 4048, fols. 47-48. He passes his compliments to Dr Scheuchzer. Steigertahl includes a short note with information on a book.
Johann Georg Steigertahl (1666-1740) was the personal physician to George I of England. He was a member of the Royal Society and secured the purchase of Engelbert Kaempfer’s collection of East Asian curiosities for Sir Hans Sloane in 1723 (http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Georg_Steigerthal).