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Jean Anisson to Hans Sloane – March 3, 1714
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Date: March 3, 1714
Author: Jean Anisson
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 234-235
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Anisson discusses a publication released in a new edition, Malebranche’s scholarship, and Tournefort’s voyage. He asks Sloane to accompany him on a visit to Sir Isaac Newton’s house, for ‘il ne parle […] notre langue’ and needs an interpreter to communicate.
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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Richard Middleton Massey to Hans Sloane – April 24, 1711
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Date: April 24, 1711
Author: Richard Middleton Massey
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 279-280
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Massey is looking for ‘two little tracts writt by Dr Herman Boerhaave’ and several other books. If Sloane sees Dr Thorpe he is to pass on Massey’s address. He plans on visiting his ‘Mother Oxford’ to see Jacob Bobart.
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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Richard Middleton Massey to Hans Sloane – May 5, 1711
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Date: May 5, 1711
Author: Richard Middleton Massey
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 283-284
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Massey asks that Sloane send a copy of Mr Dixon’s case and the Philosophical Transactions. Dr Stukeley lent Massey some books authored by Hermann Boerhaave. Sloane can forget about sending his own copies of Boerhaave’s work. Dr Williamson, of Chesire, authored an interesting ‘Pharmacopiea Lond. medicamenta’, which Massey may be publishing. He would like Sloane’s opinion of it and requests that interesting books be sent to him.
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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Archibald Adams to Hans Sloane – August 11, 1709
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Date: August 11, 1709
Author: Archibald Adams
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: f. 32
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Adams had recently written about Leeuwenhoek’s microscopes and their efficacy. He comments on their use and writes about others working with microscopes. Adams apologizes for sending his observations on the ‘inner Membrane of the ear’. He saw that a similar study was published in the Philosophical Transactions, which was of a superior quality to his treatise.
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Richard Middleton Massey to Hans Sloane – November 17, 1711
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Date: November 17, 1711
Author: Richard Middleton Massey
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 8-9
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Massey requests information on Sir Francis Bacon’s publications. He just purchased ‘an old folio MS. of John Lidgates poems’.
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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Louis Phelypeaux to Hans Sloane – July 13, 1712
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Date: July 13, 1712
Author: Louis Phelypeaux
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: f. 58
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Phelypeaux plans on sending some ‘physical curiosities’ to Sloane with Dr Chateauneuf, ‘comm’re dela marine’. He hopes Sloane will accept them. They were taken from a pirate ‘de DunKerque’.
Louis Phelypeaux (1672-1725), Marquis de La Vrilliere, was a French politician. He served as Secretary of State for Protestant Affairs from 1700, acted as Head of the Department of the Maison du Roi, and worked in the Navy Ministry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Ph%C3%A9lypeaux,_marquis_de_La_Vrilliere).
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Guy-Crescent Fagon to Hans Sloane – July 8, 1713
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Date: July 8, 1713
Author: Guy-Crescent Fagon
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: f. 160
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The Jardin du Roi has tasked Fagon with collecting information on the cultivation and commerce of plants, particularly in Japan and China.
Guy-Crescent Fagon (1638-1718) was the physician of Louis XIV of France. He was made an honorary member of the Academie des sciences in 1669 and ran the Jardin du Roi until his death (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy-Crescent_Fagon).
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Victor Ferguson to Hans Sloane – October 29, 1713
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Date: October 29, 1713
Author: Victor Ferguson
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: ff. 200-201
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Ferguson asks Sloane to find a position for James Anderson as an apothecary’s journeyman. Brother Elsmere’s family is well. Mr McBride wrote a letter of recommendation as well. See: Sloane MS 4043 fols. 202-203.
Victor Ferguson (d. 1729) was a physician of Newtown, near Belfast (Toby C. Bernard, A New Anatomy of Ireland: The Irish Protestants, 1649-1770 (Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2003), ch. 5; “Fergusons of Belfast” URL: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~colin/FergusonsOfIreland/Belfast.htm).
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Richard Middleton Massey to Hans Sloane – November 9, 1713
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Date: November 9, 1713
Author: Richard Middleton Massey
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4043
Folio: f. 207
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Medical, Scientific, Trade or Commodities
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Subjects
Books, Botany, Egypt, Gardens, Pharmaceuticals, Seeds, Specimens
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Date (as written)
November 9, 1713
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Wisbech
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Others mentioned
Jacob Bobart John Thorpe
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Patients mentioned
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Massey describes how useful ‘the leaves of the Agrimonia odorata Park. CB. Col.’ are in treating patients. He writes that ’tis the onely pectoral drink I prescribe’. He hopes to send a sample to Sloane.
Bobart gave Massey the seed for his Egyptian plant. Massey includes a list of books he would like to procure.
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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Richard Middleton Massey to Hans Sloane – November 23, 1717
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Date: November 23, 1717
Author: Richard Middleton Massey
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: ff. 72-73
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Massey thanks Sloane for advising him on patenting his mustard oil. He wants ‘an Approbation from the Physitians and members of the Royall Society made publick’. Massey left a bottle of the mustard oil with Alban Thomas should the Royal Society wish to examine it. He asks for contacts in foreign countries to send his ‘latine epistle’ to.
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).