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Charles Hatton to Hans Sloane – September 20, 1703
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Date: September 20, 1703
Author: Charles Hatton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 188-189
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Hatton was supposed to travel to London with his nephew, but a delay forced them to stay home. He thanks Sloane for all of his help regarding his brother’s illness. Christopher Hatton is doing better, though he was purged too often.
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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George Reid to Hans Sloane – March 23, 1690/91
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Date: March 23, 1690/91
Author: George Reid
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 100-101
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Government, Legal, Medical, Trade or Commodities
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Subjects
Court Case, France, Humorism, Jamaica, Netherlands, Plantations, West Indies
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Date (as written)
March 23, 1690/91
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Jamaica
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Others mentioned
Mr Musgrave Son
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Patients mentioned
Adrian
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Reid was pleased to receive Sloane’s last letter. He and Mr Elletson are being sued for £25,000 ‘by the attorneys of Cap’n Daniells… for damages upon the dutch ship’. Judge Bennard was leading the commission and said ‘nothing to the Jury in our defence’. Reid states the Dutch minister’s case was mostly hearsay. Colonel Ballard was one of the other judges. Reid was ‘bound by a recognisance of £6,000 to the K: by Musgrave Att: general’. He also had to pay an indemnity. Reid is having difficulty with the cane on his plantation. The French were off the cost of St Domingo. Reid claims life in Jamaica is much duller without Sloane.
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Timothy Harris to Hans Sloane – April 17, 1723
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Date: April 17, 1723
Author: Timothy Harris
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 343-344
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Charity, Legal, Patronage, Scholarship, Travel
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Subjects
Debts, India, Prison, Publishing, School Fees
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Date (as written)
April 17, 1723
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
From ye Kings Bench Prison in Southwark
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Others mentioned
Robert Nelson George Hickes
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Patients mentioned
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Harris asks for Sloane’s help, as he is imprisoned for ‘A small Debt’. He writes that they used to know each other when Harris lived on Ormond Street. He includes an Indian ‘Pastoral’ in the hopes it might interest Sloane. Harris was in India and claims he learned ‘some of these Notions of the Indians’. He would like to publish his observations. The debt is ‘but seven pounds & nine shillings’ owed ‘for one of my Childrens Board of Education’. Harris used to live comfortably, but has fell upon hard times. He will send a messenger to collect Sloane’s answer tomorrow.
Timothy Harris was Keeper of the Coffee House in Ormond Street, London.
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Thomas Ekhines to Lord Carthwraight – May 20, 1723
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Date: May 20, 1723
Author: Thomas Ekhines
Recipient: Lord Carthwraight
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 356-357
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Government, Trade or Commodities, Travel
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Subjects
Colonialism, France, Military, Plantations, Spain, Sugar, West Indies
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Date (as written)
May 20, 1723
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
London
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Others mentioned
Mr Worsley Lord Yakle
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Patients mentioned
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Ekhines reports that the Duke of Montague had to pay French authorities in St Lucia and St Vincent. The fort at St Lucia is said to be a good one. It is within sight of Barbados and will soon be ‘filled with French’ troops. Ekhines heard that the King has refused to allow sugar plantations on Tobago. There have been problems with French and Spanish ships in the Caribbean. He writes of the competitiveness of the sugar trade. Ekhines requests a fort and troops for Barbados.
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Johann Georg Steigertahl to Hans Sloane – September 7, 1723
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Date: September 7, 1723
Author: Johann Georg Steigertahl
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 43-44
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Language
French
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Scholarship, Scientific, Trade or Commodities, Travel
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Subjects
Auctions, Cabinet, Catalogues, Curiosities, Geography, Japan, Longitude, Natural History, Royal Family, Translations
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Date (as written)
September 7, 1723
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
Hannover
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Others mentioned
J.H. Kaempfer Charles 2nd Viscount Townshend Father Princess Amalie Philip Henry Zollman Edmond Halley Engelbert Kaempfer Prince Frederic George I
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Patients mentioned
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Zollman went to view ‘les curiosites de feu Mr Kampfer’. Steigertahl sends a catalogue of the plants and rarities in the collection. Lord Townshend is already familiar with it. J.H. Kampfer, nephew of the late Engelbert Kaempfer, has already sent specimens related to the ‘Histoire du Japon’ to Steigertahl. Zollman is going to translate the 47 chapters of the ‘Histoire’ into English. It is up to Sloane to decide whether there is any merit to the project, which is a natural history and general survey of Japanese culture. Steigertahl is going to see if the shells and plants in Kaempfer’s collection can be purchased separately, as the whole collection would be rather costly. Princess Amalie is in good health, as are the King, Queen, and Prince Frederick. Steigertahl proposes a new project on ‘la longitude’, which Sloane is to communicate to Edmond Halley.
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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Gemmingen to Hans Sloane – September 13, 1723
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Date: September 13, 1723
Author: Gemmingen
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 47-48
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[fol. 47]
Monsieur
SAR Madame la
princesse vous prie
Monsieur de vous donner
la peine de venir cette
apres diner a Richmond
SAR a besoin de vous
consulter sur les Eaux
qu’elle prend je suis
Monsieur
vostre tres humble
et tres obeissante servante
Gemmingen
ce 13 7bre
1723
Gemmingen requests that Sloane come to Richmond to consult with the Princess on taking the waters.
Gemmingen was Secretary to the Princess of Wales.
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Bennet Sherard to Hans Sloane – September 18, 1723
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Date: September 18, 1723
Author: Bennet Sherard
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 50-51
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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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Kingsmill Eyre to Hans Sloane – September 25, 1723
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Date: September 25, 1723
Author: Kingsmill Eyre
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: f. 56
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Eyre surveyed Mrs Gardner’s land and discovered several problems. He would prefer ‘3 or 4 akers where you first propos’d in ye farther Corner of Anderson’s field’. Eyre hopes to ‘entertain you with some fruits from my own labour’ in the near future.
Kingsmill Eyre (1682-1743) was the Secretary of Chelsea Hospital, a post he secured in 1716 with the help of Robert Walpole. In 1718 he was appointed Secretary to the Commissioners of Chelsea College. Eyre designed Wapole’s garden at Houghton, Norfolk, and worked with William Wood on a method of making iron, which they patented in 1727. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1726 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingsmill_Eyre).
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Margaret Gilleland to Hans Sloane – March 9, 1691 [?]
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Date: March 9, 1691 [?]
Author: Margaret Gilleland
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: f. 112
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[fol. 112r]
Ballygowan 9th of Mar 1691 my dear bai^r^ne
Your nurse deseires to hear of your welfare the last
time youe and I spoke together was in nowrie youe
asked me what Condition I was in I told yowe that I
was in an indifferent Condision I nothes had noe wants
and yawr kindness was to me as yoye youe disarired most me
to writ to yowe owsne [?] your but I was wory hath to
truble yow till now that I am forsed to do it if
you will be plleased to helpe me noue it will do
me a great dell of good according as I nursed youe
I hope you will Remember me acording as (for youe
desiered me to Lurne the boy so far I have don As
far as it lay in my poure soo I hear that your mother
is dead and that I am sorrie for it for she was
a good frind to me dear son to send me the answer
of that this leter with your brothers James Ballie
no mor at present but rests your humbles nurs
Servant der son
Margarett Gilleland
Hous is to let you no If at Wo[torn]re streped
In the nourre lik as many shop and nothing
Lef
The last time Gilleland and Sloane spoke he asked about her health. She was in an ‘indiferent Condision’ at that time. Gilleland writes that Sloane’s mother Sarah is dead.
According to the British Library Catalogue Margaret Gilleland was Sloane’s foster mother.
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Charles Hatton to Hans Sloane – June 16, 1693
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Date: June 16, 1693
Author: Charles Hatton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 151-152
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Hatton asks Sloane to meet him, and an Italian gentleman, at a local ‘watering place at seven of ye clocke this evening’.
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].