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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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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
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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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John Neale to Hans Sloane – January 4, 1723/24
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Date: January 4, 1723/24
Author: John Neale
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 118-119
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Neale writes of a ‘Scothman who practiceth Physick and Surgery’ called Mr Short (Thomas Short). Neale is coming to London and can give Sloane further details on the medical case when he arrives.
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Christopher Keon to Hans Sloane – March 16, 1723/24
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Date: March 16, 1723/24
Author: Christopher Keon
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 151-152
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Keon requests that Sloane speak with Lord Cadogan. Keon hopes the latter will offer a recommendation to help him secure a post with the ‘Comis’r of the Revenue in Ireland’.
Christopher Keon was a Land Surveyor in the Port of London.
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Jacob Benignus Winslow to Hans Sloane – May 5, 1724
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Date: May 5, 1724
Author: Jacob Benignus Winslow
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 174-175
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[fol. 174]
Monsieur
N’ayant pas trouve Mr. Geoffroy avant hier a notre assemble ordinaire de l’Academie, pour lui demander une lettre a vous en faveur de M. Camfield, porteur de celle-cy, je profit de l’occasion d’avoir l’honneur de vous ecrire, tant pour marquer l’estime particulier que j’ay toujours en pour vous, que pour tacher de suppleer au defaut de la recommendation de Mr. Geoffroy. J’espere que vous aurez quelque egard au temoignage que je rends volontiers et avec justice de l’assiduite attentive de M. Camfield a mes exercices d’anatomie, et de son application a ce qui regarde sa profession. Je prieray Mr. Geoffroy de vous en remercier. Je voudrais trouver l’occasion de temoigner plus amplement, avec combien de consideration j’ay l’honneur d’etre
Monsieur
Votre tres humble et tres
obeissant serviteur Winslow
à Paris le 5. May. 1724.
Winslow recommends the bearer, Monsieur Camfield. Monsieur Geffroy was not at the last meeting of l’Academie des sciences, so Camfield had to rely on Winslow for a letter of recommendation. Winslow hopes Sloane is aware of his work in anatomy.
Jacob Benignus Winslow (1669-1760) was a Danish-born anatomist. He settled in France, became a naturalized citizen, converted to Catholicism, and was appointed Professor of Anatomy at the Jardin du Roi in Paris (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_B._Winslow).
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John Burnet to Hans Sloane – July 17, 1724
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Date: July 17, 1724
Author: John Burnet
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 198-199
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Burnet is curious as to why he has not received word from Sloane. Edmond Halley has not responded to a letter from Burnet’s friend. He requests that Sloane return the quadrant by the Royal George with ‘Mess’rs Rigby & Pratter at Jamaica’. Burnet wants to send curiosities to Sloane. He asks for new books and pamphlets.
John Burnet worked for the South Sea Company in the West Indies and later served as the Physician to King Philip V of Spain.
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Étienne François Geoffroy to Hans Sloane – August 16, 1724
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Date: August 16, 1724
Author: Étienne François Geoffroy
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 216-217
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Language
French
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Medical, Patronage, Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society, Scholarship, Scientific, Social
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Subjects
Academie des sciences, Cabinet, Curiosities, Diseases, Inoculation, Memoires de l'Academie, Paris, Recommendations, Smallpox
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Date (as written)
August 16, 1724
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Standardised date
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Origin (as written)
a Paris
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Others mentioned
Milard Barkley Duc d'Orleans
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Patients mentioned
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Delisle, an astronomer at the Academie des sciences, is the bearer. Geoffroy has been busy with his medical practice and could not write earlier. He asks that Sloane show his cabinet to Delisle and take him to Royal Society meetings. He thanks Sloane for sending the Philosophical Transactions and observations on smallpox inoculation. Geoffroy sends the latest Memoires de l’academie. Several important persons in France have been inoculated over the past year. He describes the cases in detail. He also discusses the most common diseases in Paris. The Duc d’Orleans died. Milard Barkley purchased a notable remedy and published its recipe. Geoffroy is waiting impatiently for the second volume of Sloane’s Natural History of Jamaica.
Etienne Francois Geoffroy (1672-1731) was an apothecary and physician who studied at Montpellier, like Sloane, and worked at the Jardin du Roi and College Royal (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etienne_Francois_Geoffroy).
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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.