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George Louis Teissier to Hans Sloane – April 8, 1720
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Date: April 8, 1720
Author: George Louis Teissier
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4045
Folio: f. 318
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[fol. 318]
Sr.
There being an order of the College of Physician for my admission as fellow on monday next i thought it my duty to come and pay you my respects I remain Sr. Your most humble and obedient servant GL Teissier
April 8 1720
George Louis Teissier (d. 1742) was a German-born physician. He was physician to George I and George II as well as Westminster Hospital from 1728 to 1733. He also worked at St George’s Hospital and to Chelsea Hospital. Teissier was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1725 (https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27teissier%27%29).
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Mrs. Hales is mentioned in letter 4523 from Stephen Hales to Sloane as being a sent a ‘favour’ which Sloane had sent onto Stephen. No other information about them is available, this Mrs Hales is not however the wife of Stephen or Thomas Hales (also mentioned in the letter), as both of the brother had died before the composition of the letter.
Reference:
Stephen Hales to Hans Sloane, 1732-07-15, Sloane MS 4052, ff. 147-148, British Library, London.
Dates: to
Occupation: Unknown
Relationship to Sloane:
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Dr. Hans Sloane to Mr. John Ray – May 20, 1692
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Date: May 20, 1692
Author: Dr. Hans Sloane
Recipient: Mr. John Ray
Library: The Correspondence of John Ray: Consisting of Selections from the Philosophical Letters Published by DR. Derham and Original Letters of John Ray, in the Collection of the British Museum
Manuscript: The Correspondence of John Ray: Consisting of Selections from the Philosophical Letters Published by DR. Derham and Original Letters of John Ray, in the Collection of the British Museum
Folio: p. 249
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SIR,-I have lately seen a collection of petrifications
with Mr. Beaumont. Amongst the rest is the
Lapis
astroites, which is a sort of coral generated in the seas,
between the tropics; and it seemed to be so clearly that,
as nothing plainer. It is turned to flint, and the inter-
stices between the starry pores are transparent. One of
this kind he showed to me was half petrified, the other
half remaining, like a common star-stone. He showed
me likewise many impressions of several plants in slatt,
as ferns, flags, &c. very fair and plain, with several stalks
of plants petrified and inclosed in flint, which he talks of
publishing, together with some figures of, and reasonings
upon, them.
London, May 20, 1692
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Jean-Paul Bignon to Hans Sloane – December 6, 1709
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Date: December 6, 1709
Author: Jean-Paul Bignon
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4042
Folio: ff. 71-72
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The letter Sloane sent with Mangold was delivered by De Lorme, as Mangold had to travel to Holland. Bignon has been ill and has not been able to send his comments on the elephant teeth and shells. He requests copies of the Philosophical Transactions, but asks that Sloane wait to send them. The war makes it difficult for Bignon to pay for them.
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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Archibald Adams to Hans Sloane – February 16, 1709
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Date: February 16, 1709
Author: Archibald Adams
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 286-287
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Adams wants to know whether it is necessary to come to London to receive his licence. He is currently developing a new microscope.
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Francis Disney to Hans Sloane – n.d.
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Date: n.d.
Author: Francis Disney
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4075
Folio: f. 69
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Victor Ferguson to Hans Sloane – September 18, 1698
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Date: September 18, 1698
Author: Victor Ferguson
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 119-120
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Ferguson was intrigued by Colbatch’s writings on curing wounds. He asks for Sloane’s thoughts on the subject and offers his services to Sloane and his family.
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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Charles Hatton to Hans Sloane – July 1, 1696
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Date: July 1, 1696
Author: Charles Hatton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 240-241
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Hatton explains that he has a number of friends wishing to exploit his connection to Sloane to gain consultations with the esteemed doctor.
Charles Hatton was the son of Christopher Hatton, 1st Baron Hatton and brother of Christopher Hatton, 1st Viscount Hatton [Sir Bernard Burke, C.B. LL.D., A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, new edition (1883; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1978), page 269].
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Charles Hatton to Hans Sloane – December 31, 1697
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Date: December 31, 1697
Author: Charles Hatton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 4-5
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Hatton thanks Sloane and his wife for all of their favours. He apologizes for not being able to wait on them as per Sloane’s ‘obliging invitation’. Hatton informs Sloane that Mr Isted will be waiting on him at the Temple Coffee House to beg for the favour of a letter of recommendation from Sloane to present to Tournefort.
Charles Hatton was the son of Christopher Hatton, 1st Baron Hatton and brother of Christopher Hatton, 1st Viscount Hatton [Sir Bernard Burke, C.B. LL.D., A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, new edition (1883; reprint, Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1978), page 269].
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Victor Ferguson to Hans Sloane – February 4, 1697/8
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Date: February 4, 1697/8
Author: Victor Ferguson
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: f. 25
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Ferguson requests that Sloane send him the best new books. He asks for information regarding Sloane’s Natural History of Jamaica, Sibbald’s Natural History of Scotland, and a general reader on the theory and praxis of physic.
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).