Posted on August 2, 2016 by Emma Seeley -
Clemina Pemberton to Hans Sloane – July 29, 1732
Item info
Date: July 29, 1732
Author: Clemina Pemberton
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: ff. 153-154
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[fol. 153] Sr Mr Perronet told me yr Honr was very busy the morning, he carryd those curious manuscripts to your House, and Indeed, I beleive soe too: or otherways the five guineas, would never been the ocasion to Return such books back: which I beleive when yr Honr is pleas’d to take more notices off will appear to be worth 50 guineas instead of 5: however I have desir’d Mr Perronet, to carry them once more with another ancient vollume perhaps worthy of notice which shall be at yr Honrs service with the manuscripts for the aforesaid sum I am in the mean time Sr ye Honrs most obedient humble servant Clemina: Pemberton saturday July ye 29th 1732 P:S: I have desird Mr Perronet to leave them for two or three days on which time ye Honrs leasure may permitt to look into those valuable manuscripts
Posted on August 2, 2016 by Emma Seeley -
Johann Philipp Breyne to Hans Sloane – August 20, 1732
Item info
Date: August 20, 1732
Author: Johann Philipp Breyne
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: ff. 166-167
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Language
English
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Collections, Philosophical Transactions, Royal Society, Scholarship, Trade or Commodities
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Subjects
Books, Cabinet, Curiosities, Natural History
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Date (as written)
August 20, 1732
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Standardised date
August 20, 1732
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Origin (as written)
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Others mentioned
Mark Catesby Richard Middleton Massey
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Patients mentioned
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Breyne thanks Sloane for his letter and the books. He did not receive ‘ye forth Part of Mr Catesby’s Natural History’. Breyne is glad to hear that Sloane was pleased with his treatise. He requests that Sloane send him any duplicates in his ‘vast Collection of Naturall things’.
Johann Philipp Breyne (1680-1764) was a German botanist, zoologist, and entomologist known primarily for his work on the Polish cochineal, or Porphyrophora polonica, used in red dye production. He became a fellow of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1715 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Philipp_Breyne).
Posted on August 2, 2016 by Lisa Smith -
L. J. Jacmin to Hans Sloane – September 16, 1732
Item info
Date: September 16, 1732
Author: L. J. Jacmin
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: ff. 182-183
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Language
French
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Library
British Library, London
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Categories
Royal Society, Scholarship, Scientific
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Subjects
Academie des sciences, Anatomy, Autopsies, Botany, Manuscripts, Memoires de l'Academie, Opthalmology
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Date (as written)
September 16, 1732
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Standardised date
September 16, 1732
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Origin (as written)
à Hannover
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Others mentioned
Sebastien Vaillant John Thomas Woolhouse Jacob Benignus Winslow Mr Ludewig
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Patients mentioned
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Jacmin’s botanical manuscript was written by hand. He admits that it is full of mistakes. Mr Vaillant has informed him of three new classes, which have been presented to l’Académie des sciences and printed in the Mémoires de l’académie. Jacmin discusses his plans for the text as well as botanical and anatomical scholarship, including the work of the ‘celebre Anatomiste Mr. Winslow à Paris’. Jacmin requests that Sloane and the Royal Society condescend to his level and accept his botanical manuscript. He can be reached at Mr Ludewig’s residence ‘à la Steinthor’.
L. J. Jacmin was a physician who performed an autopsy on a sexagenarian with cataracts. He removed the eye from the cadaver’s socket and cleansed it in water to satisfy his curiosity. The man took ‘la friction mercurielle’ three times during his youth. There was a crystalline substance thereon, which he believes is a ‘continuation de la Retine’. He suspects the condition has something to do with ‘l’humeur vitrée’. He compared his observations to those of the ‘ancien Maitre Mr. de Woolhouse et le Professeur Allemand Heister’, which were consistent with their descriptions of cataracts.
Posted on August 2, 2016 by Lisa Smith -
Browne Langrish to Hans Sloane – September 17, 1732
Item info
Date: September 17, 1732
Author: Browne Langrish
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: ff. 184-185
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[fol. 184] Honour’d Sir, I am unwilling to give you the Trouble of sending my Manuscripts any where, & there fore have desired Mr Bettesworth, a Bookseller in Pater noster Row, to send his servant to you for it. I will take Case to add Mr Cowper’s Experiment with Those I have lately made on the Aorta, & I flatter my self, when I have carefully revised & corrected my work, & added what I have farther to say on the Nature of Attraction & Repulsion, my Theory of muscular Motion will be illustrated so as to make it appear consistent with the known Laws of Nature, & the animal Oeconomy. I hope, Sir, when Dr Croon’s Lecture is fixt, you will be so kind as to let me know whether I can read it or not. I am, Sir, yr most Obedient & most humble servant Browne Langrish Petersfield Septr ye 17th 1732
Posted on August 2, 2016 by Lisa Smith -
Charles Erskine to Hans Sloane – September 28, 1732
Item info
Date: September 28, 1732
Author: Charles Erskine
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: f. 191
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[fol. 191] Sir The many favours done by you formerly to the Society in Scotland for propagating Christian Knowledge, and this late instance in your being very instrumental with the Right Honourable The Countess of Harrold, to obtain for us £300. Out of the first Distribution of Earl Thanets Charity, Binds us by the strongest ties of Honour and Gratitude to acknowledge, as we do, by this, in the most thankful manner; the Charitable Inclination you have always showed towards the promoting of the good work with which we are intrusted. We shall always make it our business to Employ what is thus bestow’d, to the, best advantage that the great end we have in our view, may be, attaind. You may be assurd, we shall never be wanting to shew our Gratitude, as Opportunity offers, for the favours you have done us. This in name and by Appointment of the Societys Committee Is from Sir Your most humble & most Obedient servant Char. Erskine P. Edinburgh 28th Septemr 1732 Sir Hans Sloan
Charles Erskine was President of the Scotch Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge.
Posted on January 28, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -
Lady Frederica Susanna Schomberg gained the title Countess of Holderness when she married Robert Darcy, 3rd Earl of Holderness. In 1724 she married Hon. Benjamin Mildmay and her married name became Mildmay. Her titles included Countess FitzWalter and 3rd Countess of Mértola
Reference:
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederica_Mildmay,_Countess_FitzWalter).
Dates: to
Occupation: Unknown
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Posted on January 31, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -
John Wallop, Viscount Lymington (3 August 1718 – 19 November 1749) was a British politician, styled Hon. John Wallop from 1720 to 1743. The eldest son of John Wallop, 1st Viscount Lymington, Wallop was educated at Winchester School from 1731 to 1734 and at Christ Church, Oxford in 1735. From 1739 to 1740, he was mayor of Lymington.
On 12 July 1740, he married Catherine Conduit(d. 15 April 1750), the daughter of John Conduitt and great-niece of Isaac Newton, by whom he had four sons and a daughter
Reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wallop,_Viscount_Lymington#cite_note-hop-1
Dates: to
Occupation: Unknown
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Posted on February 7, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -
Jemima de Grey, née Crew, Duchess of Kent and her daughter Lady Jemima Grey, 1705, by Sir Godfrey Kneller. Credit: National Heritage, Wrest Park – Silsoe.
Jemima (nee) Crew (1675-1728) married Henry Grey, 1st and last Duke of Kent, in 1695. Her parents were Thomas Crew, 2nd Baron Crew of Stene, and Anne Armyne.
Reference
‘Hon. Jemima Crew’, The Peerage, http://thepeerage.com/p1408.htm#i14078 (accessed 7 February 2017).
Dates: to
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Posted on January 28, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -
Anthony Grey, Earl of Harold b. 1695/6, d. 1723.
Reference:
Burke’s Peerage, vol. 1, p. 1065
Dates: to
Occupation: Unknown
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Posted on January 28, 2017 by Tracey Cornish -
Peregrine Hyde (Osborne), Marquess of Carmarthen 1712-1729, when he became the 3rd Duke of Leeds. He married his third wife, Juliana, in 1725.
Peregrine Hyde Osborne, 3rd Duke of Leeds was referred to as Marquess Carmarthen or Lord Carmarthen at the time.
Reference:
The Complete Peerage, vol. 7, p. 513
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