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M.L. Harders to Hans Sloane – January 12, 1718
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Date: January 12, 1718
Author: M.L. Harders
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: f. 85
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Harders solicits Sloane’s advice and hopes he will not be ignored.
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Jean de Fontaney to Hans Sloane – October 30, 1707
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Date: October 30, 1707
Author: Jean de Fontaney
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 50-51
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De Fontaney asks two favours. Firstly, he hopes Sloane can help his three friends who are traveling to China. They are currently in Amsterdam and the authorities are making it difficult for them to leave on account of their being French. De Fontaney asks Sloane to compile some recommendations from a number of people to prove they are decent people. Secondly, he asks if Sloane will meet with three missionaries recently returned from China. Two are French and one is Portuguese. He mentions that he has recommended Sloane to a number of other friends. De Fontaney thinks such meetings will be mutually beneficial as his friends have many stories to recount about their travels.
Jean de Fontaney (1643-1710) was a Jesuit priest who led Louis XIV’s mission to China in 1685. He and his team were admitted to the Academie des Sciences and equipped with astronomical and geological instruments to collect information on their trip. Fontaney was also a distinguished teacher of mathematics and astronomy at the College de Louis le Grand. His work was published in the Journal des Scavans and Memoires de l’Academie des Sciences (David E. Mungello, Curious land: Jesuit accommodation and the origins of Sinology, University of Hawaii Press, 1989: pp. 329-330).
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Peter Collinson was a botanist and a member of the Royal Society. Through his connection with the Royal Society, he became a close enough friend of Sir Hans Sloane to expect that he might have been made curator of Sloane’s collection after his death, an expectation in which he was let down in as he was passed over for the role.
Reference:
Peter Collinson to Hans Sloane, 1735-07-04, Sloane MS 4054, f. 62, British Library, London
Dates: to
Occupation: Unknown
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Posted on September 3, 2017 by Tallulah Pepperell -
Phillip Cotton wrote letter 4520 to a Plukenett. No other information about him is known.
Reference:
Phillip Cotton to Plukenett, Date Unknown, Sloane MS 4066, f. 301, British Library, London
Dates: to
Occupation: Unknown
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Posted on September 3, 2017 by Tallulah Pepperell -
Joannes Henricus de Heucher, (1677-1747), was a German scientist and physician under August the Strong, the king of Poland. He was the head of the royal library as well as the royal rarity cabinet, les Galeries des sciences. In 1729 he became a member of the Royal Society.
Reference:
L. J. Jacmin to Hans Sloane, 1732-06-18, Sloane MS 4052,ff. 135-136, British Library, London
Joannes Henricus de Heucher, Wikipedia, [https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Heinrich_von_Heucher, accessed 03/09/17]
Dates: to
Occupation: Unknown
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Posted on August 31, 2017 by Tallulah Pepperell -
Charles Frederic Reutterhielm wrote letter 4497 to Sloane. No other information about him is available.
Reference:
Charles Frederic Reutterhielm to Hans Sloane, 1735-07-07, Sloane MS 4054, f. 68, British Library, London
Dates: to
Occupation: Unknown
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Posted on August 31, 2017 by Tallulah Pepperell -
Edward Lovell was chaplain to King George II.
Reference:
Edward Lovell to Hans Sloane, 1732-06-06, Sloane MS 4052, f. 122, British Library, London
Dates: to
Occupation: Unknown
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Thomas Bromsall wrote letter 4492 to Sloane. No other information can be found about him.
Reference:
Thomas Bromsall to Hans Sloane, 1732-05-16, Sloane MS 4052, ff. 117-118, British Library, London
Dates: to
Occupation: Unknown
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Posted on August 31, 2017 by Tallulah Pepperell -
Job Baster, also Hiob Baster, (1711 – 1775) was a Dutch physician and naturalist who devoted himself almost entirely to the study of medicine and natural history. Soon after the visit to London mentioned in letter 4491, he became good friends with Hans Sloane and other London scientists.
Reference:
Antoine de Jussieu to Hans Sloane, 1732-05-16, Sloane MS 4052, ff. 115-116, British Library, London
Job Baster, Wikipedia, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_Baster, accessed 31/08/17]
Dates: to
Occupation: Unknown
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Posted on August 30, 2017 by Tallulah Pepperell -
Thomas Adams was Quartermaster of the Dragoons. He wrote letter 4490 to Sloane, regarding a specimen he had found and sent to Sloane.
Reference:
Thomas Adams to Hans Sloane, 1732-05-15, Sloane MS 4052, ff. 113-114, British Library, London
Dates: to
Occupation: Unknown
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