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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
Reid, Jr.
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Transcription
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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George Reid to Hans Sloane – March 23, 1690/91
Item info
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
Reid, Jr.
Original Page
Transcription
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.
Posted on August 2, 2016 by -
George Reid to Hans Sloane – March 23, 1690/91
Item info
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
Original Page
Transcription
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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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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Transcription
[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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Item info
Date:
Author: John Gibson
Recipient: Man
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: MS 4066
Folio: f. 346
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Transcription
Sr.
Where I was in Company ye. other day talking of men yt. were great Judges of Curiositys, I was told Sr. Hans Sloane was ye. gratest man in yt. way, therefore I beg ye. favou you’ll recomend a Couple of Christiall Glasses sir to cover picture breast high, I am Infrom’d they are ye. best of ye. best & yt. there ar[e?] none such to be had in England,
I am yr most humble Servt. John: Gibson
Satturday 12 a clock
Gibson asks Mr. Man to show Sir Hans Sloane a couple Christiall glasses.
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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].
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Anthony Bromwich to Hans Sloane – April 7, 1695
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Date: April 7, 1695
Author: Anthony Bromwich
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 207-208
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Bromwich learned by Mr Powell that Sloane is serving as Madam Rawlinson’s physician. He inquired about Sloane at the Grecian Coffeehouse. Sloane consulted on Rawlinson’s case before Dr Gibbons and several others were called in. One ‘Mr Brooken’ was also a patient of Bromwich’s before he retained Sloane. Bromwich states: ‘you tooke from me my Patient… I must say it is fowle practice & Not like a Gentleman’ to act in such a way. He ‘shall Compayn of it’ to the appropriate authorities.
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Anthony Bromwich to Hans Sloane – April 7, 1695
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Date: April 7, 1695
Author: Anthony Bromwich
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 207-208
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Bromwich learned by Mr Powell that Sloane is serving as Madam Rawlinson’s physician. He inquired about Sloane at the Grecian Coffeehouse. Sloane consulted on Rawlinson’s case before Dr Gibbons and several others were called in. One ‘Mr Brooken’ was also a patient of Bromwich’s before he retained Sloane. Bromwich states: ‘you tooke from me my Patient… I must say it is fowle practice & Not like a Gentleman’ to act in such a way. He ‘shall Compayn of it’ to the appropriate authorities.
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Anthony Bromwich to Hans Sloane – April 7, 1695
Item info
Date: April 7, 1695
Author: Anthony Bromwich
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 207-208
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Transcription
Bromwich learned by Mr Powell that Sloane is serving as Madam Rawlinson’s physician. He inquired about Sloane at the Grecian Coffeehouse. Sloane consulted on Rawlinson’s case before Dr Gibbons and several others were called in. One ‘Mr Brooken’ was also a patient of Bromwich’s before he retained Sloane. Bromwich states: ‘you tooke from me my Patient… I must say it is fowle practice & Not like a Gentleman’ to act in such a way. He ‘shall Compayn of it’ to the appropriate authorities.
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Hans Sloane to Antoine de Jussieu – 30 Juillet. 1717.
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Date: 30 Juillet. 1717.
Author: Hans Sloane
Recipient: Antoine de Jussieu
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4068
Folio: f.135
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Monsr de Jussieu
J’ay remis a Monsr. Pajot d’O Gembray un pacquet de Semences pour vous, qui m’ont ete mises entre les mains par Monsr. Miller qui est revenu depuis peu de la Holland charge d’une cargaison de Plantes. Je n’ay pas voulu negliger de vous endonner aus[?], & de vous annoncer en mesme temps votre election pour membre de notre Sociéte Royale, dont Je vous felicite de tres mon coeur. Je continue avec beaucoup d’estime
le 30 Juillet. 1717.
Le caise[?] que vous aveZ eu la bontè de nous envoyer commence a possesser. AyeZ la bontè d’assurer de mes respects Mrs Ray[?] & Mr. votre frere.
A MonSr Jussieu