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Christopher Hamond to Hans Sloane – November 15, 1721
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Date: November 15, 1721
Author: Christopher Hamond
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 148-149
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[fol. 148]
Sr. Hans
A Gentlewoman in my Neighbourhood having lately Miscaried, is desirous to take some rules to prevent ye like againe, & I Intreat the favour of you to Call at my House ye first time you come this way & Ill wait upon you to her who am Yor very Obliged Humble Servt Chr Hamond Crutched Fryars Wednesday morning ye 15. Novembr. 1721
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Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli to Hans Sloane – March 17, 1722
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Date: March 17, 1722
Author: Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 215-216
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Marsigli complains that the voyage from London to Amsterdam was uncomfortable. He is viewing the cabinets of Amsterdam, which feature many shells and insects. Mr Renys is deaf, making it difficult to speak with him: ‘il faut se tuer a luy parler’. Marsigli has not yet found ‘un Recueil pour Lhistoire naturelle’.
Count Luigi Ferdinando Marsigli (1658-1730) was an Italian soldier and naturalist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1691. Marsigli published several books, established a printing-house, and founded an Institute of Sciences and Arts in 1715 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luigi_Ferdinando_Marsili).
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Benjamin Habakkuk Jackson to Hans Sloane – June 21, 1723
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Date: June 21, 1723
Author: Benjamin Habakkuk Jackson
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 9-10
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[fol. 9]
London June 21st 1723
Sr
I Thankfully Acknowledg your favour in being Willing to Introduce me to the Royall Society to shew my swimming Invention and Quadrant and I should have been there to have waited upon them Yesterday; But before I Do that I was willing to make the Following proposal to your self.
That, whereas I have a Pattent for these Swimming Invention which is Universally approv’d, upon many Tryalls in the Water, as sufficient to Preserve Life, in all Cases of Shipwreck at Sea, And the Cramps, and all other accidents in swimming for Pleasure, whereby there will be A Call for a vast Number of ’em, and it will Require a great Stock, to Carry on the Makeing of ’em, than I have to Employ therein.
If You shall think fitt to find Stock for the Purpose, I shall be willing to Manage the Makeing and Sale of the Swimmers on your account, by vertue of the Priviledg of my Pattent, and shall be Content with A Reasonable Part of the Proffit, upon that account of my mannagement.
If you are Pleasd to take this into your Consideration, There May a very Great Proffit arise without any Hazard Imediately without any Delay, the season being Now come for this work; And this Matter shall be Settled to your full satisfaction. Sr I shall soon wait for you on this account, And am with all Due Respects
Sr Your most Humble Servant
B.H. Jackson.
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Thomas Lovell to Hans Sloane – March 6, 1719/20
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Date: March 6, 1719/20
Author: Thomas Lovell
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4076
Folio: f. 42
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(f. 42r)
Sr,
I doubt not, but that you have thought
me tedious in not writing to you,
since I left the town: I had some acci-
dental business unforeseen when I was
with you, which occasion’d my delay
of following your prescriptions till this
last month: I have now gon through them
and though I cannot yet perceive any
benefit from them, yet I must own
they have had some effect upon my
eyes, by causing a more than ordina-
ry pain in them. Be pleased, Sr, to fa-
vour me with a line, if you can be any
thing beneficial to me, who is
your most obedient and most devoted Humble Servt
Tho. Lovell
Be pleased to direct for
me to be left at Mr
Chrisloes in Grantham Lincolns.
Penny post stamp and remains of red wax seal on exterior of letter.
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Katherine Lowther to Hans Sloane – May 2, 1739
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Date: May 2, 1739
Author: Katherine Lowther
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4076
Folio: f. 48
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(f. 48)
Meabourn May
ye. 2d
1739
S
r:
As im informed that my
son at Mary=bon School has lately had a little
looseness so M
r: Lowther & I cant help fearing
the Consequence of such frequent returns & there=
=fore thought it proper to aquaint you that
we are very apprehensive that all his Dis=
=orders proceeds from worms, as he us’d to
be troub
d: w
th. them, & has sometimes voided
them, & the last year he had the same Symp=
=toms, they tell me he now has, & upon takeing
some Quicksilver water the child recover’d
his looks & was much better, which makes
us desire that you w
d. see him & order him
what you think proper for him to take, wch
will very much oblige M
r: Lowther as well
as
Sr: your Most Obedient
Humb: Sert:
K. Lowther
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Charles Maitland to Hans Sloane – August 8, 1721
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Date: August 8, 1721
Author: Charles Maitland
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4076
Folio: f. 96
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Fol. 96
Honoured Sir
This comes to give you notice that the operation of inoculating the smallpox on the prisoners in Newgate is to be performed tomorrow morning about nyne o’clock, At which time your presence there will be very acceptable to
Honoured Sir
Yours most obedient
humble servant
Cha: Maitland
Charles Maitland (1668-1748) was a Scottish surgeon who, with Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, introduced smallpox inoculation to England. His first demonstration was to the Royal College of Physician in 1721. Then in 1722 an experiment was carried out on six prisoners at Newgate Prison under the direction of Sir Hans Sloane (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Maitland_(physician).
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John Manley to Hans Sloane – November 2, 1723
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Date: November 2, 1723
Author: John Manley
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4076
Folio: f. 115
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Fol. 115
He tells me the woman is very careful and vigilant in complying with all your directions. But he himself is so negligent that he has sometimes bepiss’t his Breeches in the day time. I say tis his own negligence, for he is never deny’d leave to go down whenever he asks it.
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S. Mapletoft to Hans Sloane – August 15, 1724
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Date: August 15, 1724
Author: S. Mapletoft
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4076
Folio: ff. 127-128
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Fols. 127-128
I beg leave to remember you…Mr Greenhill was to consult you in a settled disorder of his head, a species of vertigo, brought upon him first by removing from Hartfordshire a clear sharp air to … a dampy fen air, in which he has been about ten years, his first disorder was just upon entrance, a slow continued nervous feaver, which went of[f] but sluggishly and seems to have shock’d and weaken’d the whole nervous system the badness of the air still contributing, that life is con’t but with unplesantness not long before He apply’d to you. He was gradually seiz’d with near a total desperation of life. his Blood stagnating in his extreme parts and they went cold, but was happily relieved and only then, by bleeding. He is about five and thirty years of age and born certainly with as strong and firm stamina vitae as any man and is as well and robust as possible this unhappiness above excepted, has much endeavour’d to make out for the air by increase exercise, in an use of which, He says always, he is better but no sooner discon’t, than a return of his disorder, He is of a plethorick habit and eats moderately drinks and sleeps very well, but no sooner wakens than than the usual complaint, He bleeds as oft as there seems any advanced fulness of blood, takes vomits, purges and has us’d the most efficacious alteratives but always without any sensible relife, though I do imagine they back future ills; but this is justly observable. He never changes ye air, but finds an almost immediate abatement of this disorder
[Sloane: Elect, cephal. chalybeat, pil calhart]
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Robert Balle to Hans Sloane – July 11, 1721
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Date: July 11, 1721
Author: Robert Balle
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 100-101
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Library, Material Culture, Royal Society, Social, Travel
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Subjects
Antiquities, Fellowship, Gardens, Inscriptions, Italy, Lost Gospel, Manuscripts, Statuary, Tuscan Language
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Date (as written)
July 11, 1721
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
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Others mentioned
Padre Tossi Sebastiano Bianoli Dr Antonio L. Dr Sherard Sir Isaac Newton Signor Bianchi Lord Pembroke Sir Andrew Fountaine Thomas Hewitt
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Patients mentioned
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Balle met several learned men in Florence. He toured ‘the Garden of samples’ with Padre Tossi. Dr Antonio L. wants to become a Fellow of the Royal Society. Sebastiano Bianoli desires more contacts in England. He is already communicating with Sir Andrew Fountaine and Lord Pembroke. Balle is having trouble with his sight. The Grand Duke has a ‘noble collection’, but wants pictures of the great men of England including Lord Bacon and Sir Isaac Newton. Signor Bianchi is going to print some ‘antient Tuscan inscriptions’, which feature the ‘remanes of th’ antient Tuscan Languague’. Balle is touring Lombardy with Dr Salinis, a man who discovered a ‘Library of Manuscripts, wholy forgotten for about 300 years, among which is a New Testament of St. Isadore in Greek’. Mr Boleman purchased ‘a Grecian statue of Mercury’. Balle asks that Sloane offer his service to Sir Thomas Hewitt.
Robert Balle (d. 1733) was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1708 and served on its Council in 1710 and between 1712 and 1720 (https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Persons&dsqPos=1&dsqSearch=%28Surname%3D%27balle%27%29).
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John Napper to Hans Sloane – October 30, 1724
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Date: October 30, 1724
Author: John Napper
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4076
Folio: f. 139
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Fol. 139
I am favoured with your friendly advice and letter sent me by Mr Wayte, as also the spaw water and 2 papers of ingredients for tea, which I make use of according to your prescription. But since I sent my case to Mr Conduitt my distemper has prov’d quite another thing, that is, the stone in my kidnies, one of a considerable biggnesse has come away both before and since I have been in a perfect Rack and pine away most miserable, being full of pains all over my Body and Back tormented with wind I am perpetual vomiting so that nothing will agree or digest in my stomach, besides my urine is red with a great settlement of Blood like slyme and very little sand. No rest can I gett att night, having a great palpitation of my heart with a drought and weakness of spirits. I should gladly have more relief from these things, otherwise I can’t think of subsisting, being extremely reduced for want of victuals and rest at night. Your further assistance and speedy assistance is humbly desired.