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William Newton to Hans Sloane – September 22, 1724
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Date: September 22, 1724
Author: William Newton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 253-254
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[fol. 253]
Whitby Septemb:r the 22th 1724
Sr Hans
The great favour you did me, when
I gave y’r Worship an acc’t sometime
since of a great quantity of silver ore &
another of Jett, which were found in our
sea clives not far from Whitby, You were
pleasd to give me y’r opinion that Jett
being so plentifull in other p’ts of this
kingdom, it would not be of any great
advantage to pursue the getting of
it though it is very good in its nature &
abundance of pretty things have been
made of it here & the silver ore hath
been tryd by a Chymist
& very good silver extracted from it but attended
with too much charge whether or not he was a
very skilfull man in his profession, I am not a
competent judg but shall send you a demonstr
-ation of it. S’r Hans I should be very proud
that S’r Isaac Newton & y’r Worship would be
so kind as to procure me some little place
that I may get my bread, being out of employm’t
I hope I should be found faithfull & always
acknowledge the favour done me & that I am with all profound
respect
S’r Hans
Y’r most humble & most
Obedient Servant
W’m Newton
Newton informs Sloane of the discovery of precious metals on the sea-cliffs near Whitby. He asks for Sloane’s charity.
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Johann Georg Steigertahl to Hans Sloane – September 22, 1724
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Date: September 22, 1724
Author: Johann Georg Steigertahl
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 255-256
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The Duchess of Kendel thanks Sloane for taking care of the Comte de Lippe in Steigertahl’s absence. The King is well, as is Mr Hodges.
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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Johann Georg Steigertahl to Hans Sloane – September 22, 1724
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Date: September 22, 1724
Author: Johann Georg Steigertahl
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 255-256
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Transcription
The Duchess of Kendel thanks Sloane for taking care of the Comte de Lippe in Steigertahl’s absence. The King is well, as is Mr Hodges.
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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Johann Georg Steigertahl to Hans Sloane – September 22, 1724
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Date: September 22, 1724
Author: Johann Georg Steigertahl
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 255-256
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Transcription
The Duchess of Kendel thanks Sloane for taking care of the Comte de Lippe in Steigertahl’s absence. The King is well, as is Mr Hodges.
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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Johann Georg Steigertahl to Hans Sloane – November 30, 1723
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Date: November 30, 1723
Author: Johann Georg Steigertahl
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 95-96
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Johann Hermann Kaempfer, nephew of the late Engelbert Kaempfer, is to bring the curiosities to Steigertahl in the next few days. Steigertahl reminds Sloane of how the items are to be paid for. The Royal Family is well. Steigertahl would like to hear how the Prince and Princess of Wales are doing in England.
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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Johann Georg Steigertahl to Hans Sloane – September 22, 1724
Item info
Date: September 22, 1724
Author: Johann Georg Steigertahl
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 255-256
Original Page
Transcription
The Duchess of Kendel thanks Sloane for taking care of the Comte de Lippe in Steigertahl’s absence. The King is well, as is Mr Hodges.
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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Johann Georg Steigertahl to Hans Sloane – September 22, 1724
Item info
Date: September 22, 1724
Author: Johann Georg Steigertahl
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 255-256
Original Page
Transcription
The Duchess of Kendel thanks Sloane for taking care of the Comte de Lippe in Steigertahl’s absence. The King is well, as is Mr Hodges.
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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Bennet Sherard to Hans Sloane – September 28, 1724
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Date: September 28, 1724
Author: Bennet Sherard
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 257-258
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Bennet Sherard (1677-1732), 1st Earl of Harborough, was the son of Bennet Sherard, 2nd Baron Sherard, and Elizabeth Christopher (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 491).
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Richard Wright to Hans Sloane – September 28, 1724
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Date: September 28, 1724
Author: Richard Wright
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 259-260
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[fol. 259]
Honourable Sir
I take this first Post, to return most humble Thanks for the Favour your Honour was pleas’d to shew me, which I shall ever acknowledge with the utmost gratitude. This singular Instance of your Goodness has encouraged me to presume (upon the death of Dr. Bull late Physician to Coll. Strangeways) humbly to beg a Line of Recommendation to his Honour, of my competent ability for Practising. I am very sensible, Sir, how great a favour: I desire and if by it I have incurr’d your displeasure, with all submission crave pardon for my boldness. Only adding that to have to Honour of being introduced to his Notice by so Illustrious a Person, will probably at this juncture be highly advantageous to the Improving my Infant reputation lay me under the strictest endeavours, by my Care and Fidelity to deserve that Character: and to own you for my particular Patron and my self your Creature. Sir, I am with all possible Duty and Veneration
Your Honours most Obedient
and most Humbly Devoted
Servant
Richard Wright
Sherborn Sept: 28 1724
Wright requests Sloane’s recommendation for the position of physician to ‘Coll. Strangeways’.
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Philip Rose to Hans Sloane – October 17, 1724
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Date: October 17, 1724
Author: Philip Rose
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 275-276
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Rose offers his condolences to Sloane, having just heard of the death of his wife Elizabeth. He hopes that Sloane finds consolation in God.
Philip Rose was admitted a Licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians in 1691. In 1728 he was forgiven 12 pounds owed to the College (http://munksroll.rcplondon.ac.uk/Biography/Details/3854).