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John Gyles to Hans Sloane – February 10, 1728/29
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Date: February 10, 1728/29
Author: John Gyles
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4050
Folio: ff. 59-60
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Gyles treated several patients with fevers last year. He discusses how he treated them, detailing the composition of the concoction he administered.
John Gyles was a physician.
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Louis Leon Pajot, Comte d' Ons-en-Bray to Hans Sloane – February 13, 1729
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Date: February 13, 1729
Author: Louis Leon Pajot, Comte d' Ons-en-Bray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4050
Folio: f. 61
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Pajot requests that Sloane provide advice to his gardener, who is visiting England. The man would like to view Sloane’s cabinet of curiosities.
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 23, 1729
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Date: March 23, 1729
Author: Louis Leon Pajot, Comte d' Ons-en-Bray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4050
Folio: f. 75
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Pajot encloses a collection of seeds his gardener collected, as Sloane requested.
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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Hans Sloane to Brun – May 28. 1714.
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Date: May 28. 1714.
Author: Hans Sloane
Recipient: Brun
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4068
Folio: f.90-91
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MonSr. May 28. 1714.
Quoique la lettre que vous m’avez fait l’honneur de m’ecrire ait fait des grands detours & m’ait etre rendüe fort tard nean moins je vous demande pardon d’etre si tardif a vous repondre. Je vous assure ce ne pas faute d’estime, car tous les jours je me plains fort de ma porte en ce que je navais pas l’honneur de connaitre un homme du quel je pouvais tant profiter que peu de jours avant vostre depart & plus acause que je pouvais a laiser vous entretenir sur des choses naturelles notre[?] etude commune mais autoure que la poste est etablie J’en profiterai autant que je pourrai sans vous faire perdre beaucoup d’un temps que vous employer si bien. Je suis tres aise d’entendre que vous faites des collections de drogues & choses & quand elles seront mises en ordre avec leurs noms cela me fera fort aise mais elles sons encore en desordre. aussitot que mon second volume de histoire naturelle de la Jamaique sera publié je vous envoyerai des plantes Se celui[?] de ce pays la vous me ferez plaisir de m’envoyer celles de vostre. Je ferai bien aise aussi d’avoir un exemplaire de chaque hors curieux imprime chez vous pour perfectioner ma bibliotheque. A la premiers occasion que se presentera je vous envoyerai quelques uns de ceux qui sont publiez en latin icy. En attendant je vous envoys les memoires de lacademie des sciences d’icy a l’addresse de MonSr. Geoffroy dans lesquels vous pourrez voir quelqs chose quoique la pluspart soit en anglais. Je vis dans le peu de temps que j’eus l’honneur d’etre avec vous vostre profond d’y[?] avoir sur toutes Sortes des sujets & vous ma pouvez a cette egard croire que je ferai toujours ravi de trouver occasion de vous temoigner que je suis fort Sincerement
Vostre
MonSr. Le Brun
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Philip Henry Zollman to Hans Sloane – April 11, 1729
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Date: April 11, 1729
Author: Philip Henry Zollman
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4050
Folio: f. 95
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Patronage, Social, Trade or Commodities, Travel
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Subjects
Books, Curiosities, Recommendations, Specimens, Theses
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Date (as written)
April 11, 1729
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Paris
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Others mentioned
Mr Poynter William Rutty Mr Walpole
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Patients mentioned
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[fol. 95] Paris 11th April 1729. n.v. Sir, I received yesterday of Mr Woolhouse the three enclosed Disputations, which he desired me to forward to you by the first Messenger. My Lord Kintore being just upon the point of setting out for England, I have recommended this Packet to Mr Frasier who is with him. I have taken the liberty some months ago to send some curiositys to Dr Rutty with my offer of them to you; I have heard nothing from the Doctor, but hope my boldness has met with your excuses in regard of the good intentions I had in doing so. I should think myself very happy if I should be honoured with your command, during my stay in these parts. Mr Poynter is to return to Soissons as soon as their Excellencys Mr Stanhope and Mr Walpole arrive here. Give me leave, sir, to conclude this short letter with recommending myself to your favour and protection being with the greatest zeal imaginable 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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Thomas Dereham to Hans Sloane – November 5, 1729
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Date: November 5, 1729
Author: Thomas Dereham
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4050
Folio: ff. 226-227
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Medical, Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society, Scholarship, Social, Trade or Commodities
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Subjects
Plants, Poison, Subscriptions, Surgery
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Date (as written)
November 5, 1729
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
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Others mentioned
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Patients mentioned
Unnamed Children
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[fol. 226] ye 5th November 1729 Sir I hope you are entirely recoverd as I wish of your late indisposition, so that you may continue for a long time in your occupations of promoting Arts, & Sciences, & preserving the health of mankind, whereas your Operation upon the four children that had eat by mistake a large quantity of Hyosciamus vulgaris has been admired in these parts by all Phisitians. The pacquet with the last Transactions that you mention is not yett come to my hands, butt I presume it will in due time, & I entreat you to return unto the Society my most dutifull thanks for there continuall favours, & pray remember the subscriptions you promised me, whereas I have in my hands the Chronologicall tables to be sent when you shall require them I entreat you to forward the enclosed wherein are some few accounts of what litterary news I can at present furnish you with, & I remaine with great respect, & esteem Sir Your most obedient, & most faithfull servant Thomas Dereham
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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de Cheuessaille to Hans Sloane – May 4, 1729
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Date: May 4, 1729
Author: de Cheuessaille
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4050
Folio: ff. 104-105
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Cheuessaille was honoured to receive Sloane’s letter. He relays that he is trained in mathematics and has published several short dissertations. He is contemplating a practical method for establishing the longitude between two meridians and makes several comments on the subject.
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Johann Georg Steigertahl to Hans Sloane – June 3, 1729
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Date: June 3, 1729
Author: Johann Georg Steigertahl
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4050
Folio: ff. 123-124
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Language
French
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Scholarship, Social, Trade or Commodities, Travel
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Subjects
Banking, Chocolate, Deaths, Inoculations, Publishing, Smallpox, Wine
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Date (as written)
June 3, 1729
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Hannover
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Others mentioned
Mr Hattorf Mr Jager Mrs Steigertahl Wife
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Patients mentioned
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Steigertahl was sad to hear the news of John Gaspar Scheuchzer’s death. The latter was Sloane’s librarian. Steigertahl asks for a work on smallpox inoculation Scheuchzer was going to send by Mr Jäger. He is grateful for the gifts of chocolate and Madeira wine, which were to his wife’s taste. Steigertahl discusses the dividend he is to receive and the banking forms that needed to be prepared before he can collect it. Monsieur de Mansberg and his father-in-law Monsieur d’Hattorf send their compliments. The latter is supposed to arrive in Hanover soon. The King arrived in Holland in May and is to leave for Hanover soon. Dr Goebel, ‘Professeur en Droit à Helmstadt’, is going to print the work of the late ‘Hermannus Couringius’ in four volumes.
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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William Clayton, 1st Baron Sundon to Hans Sloane – June 9, 1729
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Date: June 9, 1729
Author: William Clayton, 1st Baron Sundon
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4050
Folio: f. 132
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[fol. 132] Sr Being inform’d that Mr. Sloane one of the Searchers at the Customs House is lately dead, I am desir’d to trouble you to know the truth of it I hope you will pardon this trouble from Sr Your very humble servant Wm: Clayton Treasury Chambr 9th June 1729
William Clayton, 1st Baron Sundon (1671-1752) was a British politician. He was MP in Woodstock to 1722, St Albans to 1727, Westminster to1741, Plympton Erle to 1747, St Mawes to 1752, and served as Commissioner of the Treasury (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Clayton,_1st_Baron_Sundon).
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Magnus Prince to Hans Sloane – September 12, 1729
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Date: September 12, 1729
Author: Magnus Prince
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4050
Folio: ff. 194-195
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Prince waited to reply to Sloane’s letter so he could send something of interest. He includes a ‘litle box with blew earth’ and comments on each specimen. Prince did not take stock of the age or symptoms of those who had been inoculated in Belfast. He suggests that most were between five and fourteen years of age and all had survived. Prince then recounts, in detail, an episode in which he ‘directed the inoculation of 4 children of a gentleman in the County of Derry’.
Magnus Prince was a physician.