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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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Geo: Vertue to Scheuhzer – July [of?] 1728
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Date: July [of?] 1728
Author: Geo: Vertue
Recipient: Scheuhzer
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: MS 4066
Folio: f. 44-45
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Dr. [Scheuhzer?]
[I?] may be so kind to Speak to Sr. Hans Sloane for the [bearet?], who is in a miserable state of health & has been very long afflicted with illness, & cannot find any remedy he humbly begs the advice of Sr. Hans.
Pray give my humble Respects to Sr. Hans & assure him I shall esteem this as a favour done
to Sr. yr. very much Obliged Servant to Command Geo: Vertue
Monday Evening July [of?]: 1728
It appears that Vertue refers to the patient as, ‘the bearet’ however; the original text is difficult to read so this cannot be confirmed.
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Charles Hatton to Hans Sloane – June 29, 1697
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Date: June 29, 1697
Author: Charles Hatton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 323-324
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Hatton informs Sloane that ‘Dr Aldrige’ [Aldrich], Dean of Christ Church, Oxford, will be waiting on him ‘next Thursday at three of ye Clock’.
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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P.H. Zollman to Rutty – 15th/26 Novr 1728
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Date: 15th/26 Novr 1728
Author: P.H. Zollman
Recipient: Rutty
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: MS 4066
Folio: f. 63-64
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Sir
During my stay here no opportunity offered that might have furnished me with the pleasure of writing a line to you. However during all last summer I have not been wanting to look out for something or other to be sent to the Royal Society against the reassumtion of their Assemblies for this winter. Accordingly you will receive some time hence by the Dover Coach a square wooden Box directed to you and marked Zo, which sets out from Paris to day: it contains various Fossils found in the neighborhood of this Place, which in company with the Honble Robert Trevor Esqr, Son to the Right Honourable the Lord Privy Seal, have been gathered in different Places. I have drawn up a list and general account of them, which you will find in the Box, and which I beg you would be pleased
Dr Rutty:
to lay before the Assembly. This place affording little else that might be in your way, I shall only mention that Montalant and other Booksellers at Paris are taking in Subscriptions for publishing in French The History of the Royal Academy of Sciences since its Establishment in the year 1666 to 1699 &c in 13 volumes in 4[to?]. The whole Payment is one Hundred livres French to be made on 7 Terms, and two volumes of it to be published in February next. The same Booksellers are preparing a French Translation of the Abridge–ment of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, to be printed in the same form as the foregoing Book. Through I do not question but the Booksellers in London have already got the Proposals from Paris, yet in all events I thought my sending you a Copy would be accep–table. I got it at Paris, from whence I returned yesterday. M. Montalant informed me, that several several able hands are actually at work in translating the Abridgement of the Philosophical Transactions, and that the Proposals for printing the same will soon be published.
I am with the most sincere attachment
Sir
Your most humble and most obedient Servant P.H. Zollman.
Decr. 18. 1729 Copied.
Zollman sent Dr. Rutty a box of fossils, which he may “lay before the Assembly.” Zollman informs Dr. Rutty “that Montalant and other Booksellers at Paris are taking in Subscriptions for publishing in French The History of the Royal Academy of Sciences since its Establishment in the year 1666 to 1699[.]” Zollman notes that “[t]he same Booksellers are preparing a French Translation of the Abridge–ment of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society[.]” 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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John Andrew to Mortimer – [feb?] 5th 1736
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Date: [feb?] 5th 1736
Author: John Andrew
Recipient: Mortimer
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: MS 4066
Folio: ff. 116-117
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Letter was difficult to read; text was faded and illegible in several places. John Andrews writes to Dr. Mortimer: “according to your Request I here send you for Sr. Hans Sloane all the Thisess relating to Physick or that I could get[.]” Andrew informs Dr. Mortimer that he is yet to acquire Dr. [Linous?]’s dissertation but assures him that once he does, he will send it to Sr. Hans Sloane along with any other physick dissertations that he acquires. Andrew notifies Dr. Mortimer that he is willing to provide Sr. Hans Sloane an account of the catalogue that was sent to him by [Lanzerauk / Lanzerack?]. According to Andrew, the catalogue contains insects which he suggests “are the best preserved [he] ever saw.” Andrew tells Dr. Mortimer that “[a]t the same Place where [he] saw this Cabinet are many Serpents Scorpions, [&] small Crocadiles[.]” Andrew suggests “if Sr. Hans pleases to send [him] any commissions relating to these things, [he will] exeicute them to the best of [his] Power.
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Paul Jodrell to Hans Sloane – February 19, 1704/05
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Date: February 19, 1704/05
Author: Paul Jodrell
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4040
Folio: f. 9
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Jodrell needs Sloane’s seal on a parcel.
Paul Jodrell was a Clerk to the House of Commons.
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C Lamotte to Scheuzer – ye 28 [..]: 1727
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Date: ye 28 [..]: 1727
Author: C Lamotte
Recipient: Scheuzer
Library: British Library
Manuscript: MS 4066
Folio: ff. 26-27
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Newport pannel [nr?] Bukinghamshir ye 28 [..]: 1727
Dear Sr
I found my self ill yesterday morning, before I left home with a violent headache – loathsomeness of stomach, & a great looseness. However thinking the journey would do me good I venturd as far as this place wch is 17 miles from my house but the symptoms are so increasd wch I take to bee ye signs of what they call the new feaver, that I fear I am not able to proceed I am extremely Sorry for ye disapointment wch I hope wch be no prjudice to ye affairs of Sr Hannes Sloane but I dread lying .. upon the .ad, & if I am not better this afternoon, I will return home to be sick. Pray give my obedt service to my good friend Mr {…}, whom I had promisd to [d?] Tea with next Thursday morning, & if it be not too great trouble of you should go towards [grafton?] street near the oratory, I beg you would call at my Lodging there at Mrs du Hamels [to?] [Motteners?] over against the [ballo?] wch and .. who expects me & where I sent my to [do a…s?] [last?] week I desire you to tell her I shall not come I beg pardon for this trouble I would have wrote to her my self but by head akes so I am ….. say [ye.?] I am Dear Sr your most humble Servt C Lamotte [T..d.y p…..?]
A third individual is mentioned but his name cannot be identified because a portion of the text is missing.
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Jo: Burnet to J. Petiver –
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Date:
Author: Jo: Burnet
Recipient: J. Petiver
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: MS 4066
Folio: f. 293
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My Dear friend
I begg pardon for not waiting
[of?] you on Sunday but the reason
was because I don’t goe away till
Thursday or fryday and I inted you
shall be one of the last I take my
farewell off, I received your packetts
and you may be sure I’l take care of
them.
I am
Sir
Your Most obedient Servt
While Jo: Burnet
Burnet apologies to Petiver for not waiting upon him on Sunday. John Burnet worked as a surgeon for the South Sea Company in the West Indies and later served as the Physician to King Philip V of Spain. (‘James Petiver, FRS Apothecary to the Charter-House: Miscellaneous correspondence’ British Library [http://searcharchives.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/display.do?dscnt=1&fromLogin =true&doc=IAMS040-002116460&displayMode=full&dstmp=1432649891937&vid=IAMS_ VU2&ct=display&tabs=detailsTab&fromLogin=true&fromLogin=true, accessed 16 July 2015])
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George Bell to Hans Sloane – January 18th 1733/4
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Date: January 18th 1733/4
Author: George Bell
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4053
Folio: f. 138
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Bell writes to Sloane thanking him for the favours he received and mentions that he was going to send Sloane some shells that he had mentioned, but did not because Sloane had not been specific about the type and did not want to make a mistake. He writes that he would be happy to receive Sloane’s Catalogue of books he wants for the King of France has ordered all the duplicates in his library to be sold. He mentions that his time living with Mr. Morand will be expired in a fortnight, and then he is looking in to a course on midwifery before setting back to England, unless Sloane commands him to be back sooner.
George Bell was a physician.
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Andw: Crispe to James P –
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Date:
Author: Andw: Crispe
Recipient: James P
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: MS 4066
Folio: f. 303
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Sr.
I am to wait on Dr. Hulse at
3 tomorrow at his own house & from
thence to a third place where we
shall be glad of yr. company
for I would desire to know by ye
first penny post in ye morning whither
this will suite [yt?]. time that I
may acquaint ye Dr.
Yr humble Servt:
Andw: Crispe
Crispe informs Petiver of his upcoming meeting with Dr. Hulse and asks whether Petiver will join them.