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Letter 3055

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Mark Catesby to Hans Sloane – August 15, 1724


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Date: August 15, 1724
Author: Mark Catesby
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4047
Folio: ff. 212-213


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[fol. 213] Charles Town Augt – 15th – 1724 Honourable Sr I received yrs of the 17th Aprile last. I shalle according to your order make a Collection of Snakes &c but the season is so far spent before I received the Bottles to put them in that I fear I shall make but a small progress this summer especially in larger Snakes, for which I have not had before now bottles large enough to put them in. I send Now the first half of the summers collection which I hope will afford you many new plants for many of them are ye same of those destroyed by the Pyrates. The Bird’s head in the Box has a Body as big as a goose and web footed, I call it the fisher from its preying on fish, which it does after the manner of the kingsfisher precipitating it self from on high into the water with great violence and there remaining about a minute, they are never seen but at sea Bays and the mouths of large Rivers. The large skin is that of a black Fox, They are very rare and are caught only in the mountains. The small skin is that of a Polcat, they all vary in their marks two being never seen alike some almost all white, others mostly Black with but little white which […] & sport of Nature Peculiar to this little Beast, as least I know of no wild Beast but what are all of ye same colour I hope are Now Sr You have a Box of Shells and dryed Birds by Capt Robinson with a Lr of the 12 March last My sending Collections of plants and especially Drawings to every of my subscribers is what I did not think would be expected of me My design was Sr til you’l pleas to give me your arrival to keep my Drawing intire that I may Get them Graved, in order to Give A genll History of the Birds And other Animals, which to distribute separately would wholly frustrate that designe And be of little value to those who have so small fragments of the whole. Besides as I must be obliged to draw Duplicates of whatever I send, that time will be loss which otherwise I might proceed in the design And consequently be so much short in proportion to what is sent. I beg Sr if you (as I flatter my self you will) think this reasonable that you will pleas to satisfy Ld Persival, who no doubt but will be influenced by what you say That I might not be thought remiss and to give all content I can to my subscribers I designe to tarry here Another year, unless the following designe requires my being at home sooner which Sr I beg leave to communicate to you, which is this. Here is a Gentleman who practices phisick his Name is Couper and is of Wattham Colledge in Oxford and tho’ he has extradrdinary business in his profession And by far the best of Any Body in the Country. He designes to leave it through a desire of seeing the remote parts of this Continent in order to improve Natural knowledge, And as his Genius bends most to the Mathematicks, he proposes to communicate to the R. Society what observations he makes in Astronomy. And Perticularly in his way of practice. The principal obstruction in such an undertaking, I concieve is the unsafe traveling amongst so treacherous and jealous people as the Spaniards. It’s conceived a pasport or Lr of protection might be procured from Old Spain to facilitate the designe, with more safety which if it could, would be a sufficient obligation to grately the learned in Such observations as Should be required of him. And as he is so kind to tel me my Company is one principal inducement to his undertaking it So I could with no less satisfaction embrace such a designe with a Moderate encouragement, if it could be accomplished without the danger of being imprisoned and as delineating Birds and other Natural Productions would be no small embellishment to […] an undertaking If ffrom London I could not I would if possible procure from Paris or Amsterdam an painter to goe with me which probably in a very few years would produce No mean Collection of Unknown Productions I cant Sr without to much confidance And regret request the favour of your advice in this affair when I have Already transgressed so long on your important hours So I conclude Sr Your most Dutifull Humble Servt M Catesby

Mark Catesby was a naturalist, influenced by John Ray and Samuel Dale. In 1712 he went to Virginia and collected botanical specimens, gaining the attention of Dr Sherard and Sloane upon his return in 1719. In 1725 he explored the Bahamas and published his ‘The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands’ a year later (F. Nigel Hepper, Catesby, Mark (16831749), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2012 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/4882, accessed 23 July 2013]).



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Samuel Smith

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Samuel Smith apprenticed to the book trade in 1675 and was indentured to the bookseller Samuel Gellibrand followed by Moses Pitt. Smith joined the Stationers Company and became freeman of the company and then freeman of the city of London in 1682. Smith published the Royal Society’s Philosophical Transactions from the beginning of his career and he and his partner Benjamin Walford were officially named ‘printers to the Royal Society’ in 1693.

 

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Marja Smolenaars, Ann Veenhoff, Smith, Samuel (bap. 1658, d. 1707), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/63289, accessed 27 June 2013].


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Letter 0569

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William Sherard to Hans Sloane – March 28, 1699


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Date: March 28, 1699
Author: William Sherard
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4037
Folio: ff. 237-238


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[fol. 238] Dear Sr. Ime glad to hear in came safe to hand, but am sorry yrs wherein you took ye pains to give me an acct of wch books you had disposed of is Cost, tis ye 6th that has miscarrie in a few moths last past, the inclos’d I read lately from naples, to be forwarded to you, being I suppose a list of ye books sent you by Mr Buliston, probably severall wch I have bought for you there. I wonder ye ship is not yet arrived by wch I sent some from theusa abve 4 months past. I have sent 2 large Bales wch are got safe to Legorn, & I hope will be ship’d speadily for Londn. there is in them severall of yr notes, others for Ld Spencer, Capt. Hatton & I have yet another to send of unfound books. there’s nothing new here but Fabrettis inscriptions, P. Bonanni’s Hist. of St. Peters by ye popas medically & Saffonis observations uopon ye voiabularis della Bruica, all wch I have bought. sigre Fabretti gave me all his Etruscan inscriptions & explanations to be presented to ye Royall society & in return I gave him one of ye magnighis; ye others were disposed of to sigre Bagdir, Battoni, Bociona, Prnce della Catholica, Triusufetti, nazari & two I keep for viviani & magliabealis, wch was all I had. ye consul writes me from Venice he has given you an acct. of ye vast P. Cupani is printing Hortus Cathelicus some suis supplamentis austus expargatus [fol.238v] et Coinplatatus cum indiculis Andualuis colefrium tanaghicus et marinorium in Siulia degeuticus. I sent a surious parcel of seeds I had from him to Engld some months since & I hope they’ll come time enough for this season. we shall stay here to see ye holy week & then move by way of Florence, Bolonia Mulan & Turin towards France, where I hope to be by ye end of June. if you’ll fling away so much time as to let me hear from you, be pleased to direct to Signre Flaudio Jamieau nagotiante Francesa venatio, afterwards I shall be glad to meet yr commands in France & shall give you directions assoon as [?] correspondence is settled there. we have here ye queed of Poland & yt Card. her father, ye Daha of Berwick log’d at Lord. Bullius imognito; & I plymeath & severall Pugish Gent from Venice. give my service to all friends st ye Clubb & else where & give me leave to confirm my self, Sr Rome March 28 1699 yr most obliged humble Servt. WSherard

Sherard was a botanist and cataloguer. He worked for the Turkish Company at Smyrna where he collected botanical specimens and antiques (D. E. Allen, Sherard, William (16591728), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25355, accessed 24 June 2011]).



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Letter 4381

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Henry Newman to Hans Sloane – September 1, 1731


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Date: September 1, 1731
Author: Henry Newman
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4052
Folio: f. 4


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[fol. 4] Bartlet’s Buildings 1. Septr. 1731. Honoured Sir A continual hurry has oblig’d me with regret to delay obedience to you comands for some account of the Designs of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. The printed Letters herewith sent will give the Reader some Account of them, but to give a general Idea of them, I am humbly to acquaint you that as they are a Voluntary Society, they are not confin’d to my part of the World, but wherever the Interest of Religion and Virtue can be sew’d by their good offices, they have readily concurr’d in the use of such means as were in their power to advance them. In Great Britain their cheif cares have been to encourage the erecting Charity Schools & Workhouses, and to disperse good Books among those who are not able to buy them. In the East Indies they have for severall years past given what assistance they could to the Protestant Missionaries Missionaries [sic] at Fort St. George and Tranquebar on the Cost of Coromandel by furnishing them with Money, Books, a Printing Press, 2. Fonts of Types, all manner of Utensils for Painting and Bookbinding, with other necessaries which might enable the Missionaries more effectually to answer the Ends of the Mission, which not being within the limits of the Charter of the Society for the propagation of the Gospel could not be an Object of their care though several Members of that Body have been liberal Benefactors to it. For the Poor Christians in Palestine, Arabia &ca. the Society have printed 6250. Psalters in Arabick, a New Font of Types having been cast in London on purpose for that service: And sure that they have caus’d an impression to be made of 10. Thousand New Testamets [sic] in the same Language to be dispersed gratis among the Christians at Aleppo, Damascus, Jerusalem, and Countries adjacent, at the discretion of their Correspondents at Aleppo. The particulars of their proceedings and their success in these several Branches of their designs would be a subject too large for a letter but as any accounts are printed beside those herewith sent you may always freely Command their of Sir yr most Obedient servant Henry Newman

Henry Newman (1670-1743) was Secretary for The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. He graduated BA and MA from Harvard, worked as a librarian, and entered the commercial fishing industry in Newfoundland until 1703 when he settled in England to work for the Society (Leonard W. Cowie, ‘Newman, Henry (1670–1743)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/39693, accessed 14 Aug 2015]).



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Letter 4294

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Michael Maittaire to Hans Sloane – July 22, 1731


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Date: July 22, 1731
Author: Michael Maittaire
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4051
Folio: ff. 280-281


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[fol. 280] 1731. July ye 22d. Bois, Bucks. Hond Sir, My wife sent me word, that you had last Sunday sent your servant, to know, if I was at home. I went out of town the morning before with the Duke of Rutland, with whom I spend the summer at Bois near Chesham in Buckingham-shire. I had come with him to town for a week; and I wish I had been so lucky, as to have stay’d one day longer, to receive your commands. However I thought fit to assure you by this, that, in case I can any way render you any service, I shall be glad to know your pleasure by a note left at my house. No distance of place shall, in such an occasion, be any let to him, who is and shall always be most willing and ready to approve himself, Worthy Sir, with all respect, Your most obedient and most humble servant MMaittaire P.S. Give me leave to acquaint you, that, tho I am in the country, yet the Oxford Marbles (wch you have incourag’d) go on; the proof of every sheet, as it is printed, is transmitted to me under the Duke’s cover. The work is now come to the middle of the Index, wch will contain alone at least twelve sheets.

Michael Maittaire was a classical scholar, typographer, and schoolmaster. He was educated at Westminster School and and Christ Church, Oxford. Mattaire was under-master at Westminster School from 1695 to 1699 before founding his own private school at Mile End. He published editions of Latin and Greek classics throughout his scholarly career and had an extensive library (Margaret Clunies Ross, Amanda J. Collins, Maittaire, Michael (16681747), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2009 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17841, accessed 16 Aug 2013]).



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Letter 4189

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William King to Hans Sloane – November 27, 1727


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Date: November 27, 1727
Author: William King
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4049
Folio: ff. 66-67


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Fol. 66r

Dublin Novr 27 1727

Sr

I shou’d sooner have acknowledged the favour of your
very instructive letter of the 10th of Octr last, but was
unwilling to give you the trouble till I found a convey=
ance for the picture, which you to me the honour to accept,
I send it now by long sea to London, and with this the Bill
of Lading yt you many know where to send for it. I
cannot engage for the good performance of the painter,
but assure you it is by the best I cou’d get here. I
heartily with I cou’d have presented you with some
thing of greater value, yt might have bin a testimony
of the great honour and esteem I have for your
worth and knowledge, and for your applying it, as
I see you do, for the benefit of Mankind, which in
my opinion is the true use of all sciences.

When I was at Londonderry, I apply’d my self
to planting and Gardening & made some ^progress^ but since
I came to Dublin, I have had neither conveniences
nor leisure to prosecute my inclinations yt way.
Tho I can not lay aside the study of Nature and the history
thereof, and have furnished my self with a good quan=
tity of books on those subjects, amongst which I find
few equal to yours, I have endeavoured to ^press^ my friends
on the study of the Natural History of Ireland, which
affords many curiosities equal to most Islands, but
cou’d never prevail with ym to apply ymselves
yt way, the straitness of mens fortunes, yt vouchsafe
to live at home and the universal power by &

Fol. 66v

Sloane MS 4049, f. 66v

extreme indulgence of the inhabitants make ym look no far=
ther yn the necessarys of life. All men of considerable estates
chusing to live any where rather yn at home and all places
in church and state being generally filled with strangers
who either act by deputys or spend yr time whilst here
in amassing what mony they can to spend elsewhere;

I find strangers, who visit other countrey than
their own, commonly are more inquisitive and give
better accounts of curiosities yn the Natives. In my
opinion Kempfer [Englebert Kaempfer] has given account of several things
in his travels which we shou’d never have had from
the Natives, particularly of the parfron [?] Mummy , of Camphire
dragon Blood, Assa faetida, Bezoar, Tea, the palm tree,
the Tartarian lamb, the Bannian mloxic^at^iny drugge,
the state and Herbal of Japan, with many other
new and remarkable matters, I wish he had obtained
a better graver and bin Master of a better style
I think considering the extent ^of^ your travels, yt you
have much outdone him, I only cou’d desire yt you
had presented your Method to ^which^you often refere
with ye book, I have it, but ^it^ is not always at Hand.

I do not despair of ^our^ sometimes getting Cyna=
mon, Nutmegs, Tea and coffee with pepper &
cloves, but yn they ought to be transplanted to
a proper soil, which surely, ^may^ be found in Carolina,
Jamaica, Barbados or some of those hot Isles.

I am afraid all this may appear exceddingly im=
pertinent to ^you^ and shou’d be extremely concerned
if it should detain you one hour from
those very usefull and most Charitable

Fol. 67r

Sloane MS 4049, f. 67r

affairs in which I find you ^are^ engaged & continually
employed, I only adde my most hearty prayers yt
God ^would^ be pleased to protect and preserve your, till you
be able to see all your good designs for the publick
brought to perfection, which shall be the continual
petition to God of

Sr
Your Most Humble
and obliged sert
Pritt. Dublin
[William King, Archbishop of Dublin]

Sloane MS 4049, f. 67v

King received Sloane’s ‘very instructive letter’. He had to find a way to convey the painting and sends ‘it now by long sea to London, and with this the Bill of Lading’. When King was in Londonderry he did some gardening. He discusses books, natural history, and curiosity specimens. These include a Mummy, dragon’s blood, Bezoar, tea, a palm tree, cinnamon, coffee, pepper, cloves, drugs, and an ‘Herbal of Japan’. Some of the specimens were from Carolina, Jamaica, and Barbados.

William King was a Church of Ireland clergyman and Archbishop of Dublin. He is considered to be the most important figure within the Church of Ireland of his time. King wrote trenchant critiques of other branches of Christianity as well as theological works (S. J. Connolly, King, William (16501729), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/15605, accessed 13 Aug 2013]).



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Letter 0888

Posted on August 2, 2016 by -

James Cuninghame to Hans Sloane – January 7, 1703/04


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Date: January 7, 1703/04
Author: James Cuninghame
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 226-227


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[fol. 226] Worthy Sir Pulo Condore Janrie 7. 1703/4 In a line to you by the Robert and Nathanel which left this place eight days agoe, I signified my design of sending you a Collection of some Plants, which now comes by Mr Elwood Surgeon to the Liampo Frigatt, viz. one Book containing above 100 Specimens from Cochin-china with a few short Notes upon them; & another Book of above 80 Spe- cimens from this Island, but scare any account of them, because theyre for the most part remarkable from the shape of their leaves; and these which remain requiring some Description, I shall not fail to send with the next opportunitie; among the rest I have sent you the fruit of the Calambac-tree, & one account of what I could learn thereof, as also one leafe of the true Rhubarb of China taken from a tender Plant I have gott from thence. Theres besides a small box of Shells, some fruits and a few Butterflies with specimens of the Calambac & Lignum Aloes; of all which I desire Mr Petiver may be a sharer, want of brown Paper & time not permitting me to make a separate Collection. You may perhaps expect from me one account of our Expedition to the Court of Cochin- china, but at present must referr you to our advices to the Company, and shall send you a new draught of that coast with the next occasion. As for our under- takings in this Island, they may prove successful if reasonably encouraged by the Company: there has lately been here one Junk from Cambogia & another from Siam, chiefly with provisions; this day is arrived one Junk from Macao, & more are ex: pected from Canton & Emuy with Merchants Goods, which we hope to procure at more reasonable rates then in China, whereby a great many diffi- culties undergone there, will here be avoided, and exactions prevented. I am Sir Your Assured Friend & most Humble Sert Ja: Cuninghame

James Cuninghame (fl. 1698-1709) became a member of the Royal Society in 1699. He traveled the world as a trader and collected information, plant specimens, and curiosities until his death in 1709 (Gordon Goodwin, Cuninghame , James (fl. 16981709), rev. D. J. Mabberley, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/6922, accessed 24 June 2013]).



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Letter 3718

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Rose Fuller to Hans Sloane – February 7, 1730


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Date: February 7, 1730
Author: Rose Fuller
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4050
Folio: ff. 272-273


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[fol. 272] Hon’red Sr After so many signal Instances of your kindness to me, I shou’d have thought myself highly ungratefull had I neglected to have given you my most sincere acknowledgements for the late good turn you have been so kind as to doe me in writing to my Father, that it would be proper for me to come home by Paris. He in a late very obliging Letter to me has not only given leave that I shou’d take that place in my way, but has also wth greater confidence shall I deserve left it to my discretion how lond I shou’d stay here which att present I am unable to determine, but will when I am upon going; make bold to ask you for ye Recommendations you so kindly promised me, and which will be of very great service to me there. I have recievd a Letter within these few days from Mrs Rose, by which I had ye pleasure of knowing that yourself and your Assembly on thursday were then well as I hope you all continue. I beg you wou’d make my compliments to them, and accept the duty of Hon’red Sr your most obedient Grandson And most obliged humble servant Rose Fuller Leyden Feb: 7. N:S: 1730. P:S: If there is any thing in these parts wherein I can be of service to you or any books or other matters to be had here that you have occasion for, you will doe me a very great pleasure in honouring me thereupon wth your commands, which shall be obliged wth ye greatest diligence.

Rose Fuller (1708-1777) was a politician, gun-founder and landowner. He was Sir Hans Sloane’s grandson. Fuller studied medicine at Cambridge from 1725 to 1728 and Leiden from 1729 to 1732 and went to Jamaica in 1733 to supervise the family estates. He served in the Jamaican assembly for some time before returning to England in 1755. Fuller was elected MP for Rye in 1768 (J. S. Hodgkinson, ‘Fuller family (per. c.1650–1803)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47494, accessed 14 Aug 2014]).



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Letter 0757

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Richard Richardson to Hans Sloane – July 8, 1702


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Date: July 8, 1702
Author: Richard Richardson
Recipient: Hans Sloane

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 4-5


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[fol. 4] North Bierley July 8 702 Sir/ I received yours sometime agoe & am very much obliged to you for the offer of your assistance in order to a collection of naturel raritys; tis very likely you have duplicats of severall curiositiys often brought you to be sold when that happens doe me the favoure to be a purchase for me & I wil very thankfully disburst whatever you lay out upon my account any thing in naturell History cannot come amiss but in medals I doe not intent to concerne my selfe my collection of Bookes in Nat: Hist: is but very inconciderable being but an nue beginer in that way unles in Botany, & of that sort I am prety wel provided, though I want severall late Authors. I have nothing of Dr Turniforts unles his Cat: of the garden at paris & of Dr plucknets I have only the 3 parts of his phytographia of Boccon I have nothing but his Ion: el discription: plantaru put out by Dr Morison Dr Sherard tels me he wil helpe me with his 2 last volumes father plumes Booke I have not nor Rivinus his ordo plataru; I have Aldovandi opera omnia Gesneri opera Musica Wormiani Prontuis’s history of East & West Indies & of Brasil Dr plots Nat: Hist of oxfordshire & staffordshire & Dr Leigh of Lancashire if worthy to be named amongst the rest, alsoe whatever Mr Ray & Dr Lister have written only his synopsis Conchilieru. Muffets theatru Insectaru, & Willoughbys Ornithologia, Mr Lhwyd Lythophysucia Dr Woodswards Booke with what has been writen against it & Harry’s vindication there are the those of my small stock which I am very desirouse to increase if you meet with any Bookes in this way (without giving your selfe trouble) that wil be instructive to me you shall be thankfully be repayed I have litle to offer to you in relation to coale plants but what Mr Lhwyd has already printed severall years agoe he sent me 2 or 3 of them out of Wales, which put me upon the Curiosity of inquiring what our Coalemines might produce & by good fate the first day fell upon the place where afterwards I found them in great plenty & though I have not been idle since in searching whenever I found coalemines, yet never had the fortune to succeed elsewheare, the place is now quite deserted, soe that I have litle hopes of procuring any more from thence these impresses are found in a bluish stone about 7 or 8 foot above the coale where this stone lys deepe you rarely meet with any, the greatest depth I ever found them here is about 30 foot from the superficies of the earth; in dignig [sic] severall pitts to draine the water from the Coale in this place I had the advantage of observing, that where the stone was softest which was always nigh the top of the earth there I found the greatest plenty of these stoaneplants which would seem I favoure Mr Lhwyds Hypothesis about the origin of these Bodys [fol. 5] if they would agree upon comparing with the capilarys of this country but soe far from that that I never yet met with one Ferne that did in all respects exactly agree with any of these fossil plants & to believe that the essentiall part of the seed of these plants should be brought hither by rains from far countrys & deposited in the Bowels of the earth to soe as to produce plants, seems lyable to a great many objection, however the notion is ingeniouse enough that these receive theire formes from real plants I am fully convinced, having often met with the plant upon opening some of these stones but always very thin & membranouse & apt to be blowne away with the least winde how these plants came Hither I shall leave our friend D. W. to determine, who I hope in his large worke when it comes out wil give us ample satisfaction about this affaire but that the plants themselves were driven hither from remoate parts in Noahs flood & to remaine soe intire when all hard bodys were desolved as to give benig [sic] to these figures I feare wil not be very easy to account for & why 1000 capilarys are found for one […] plants in this stone I cannot give any satisfactory reason unles we should say severall of these retaine theire leaves all winter, when those of other plants & trees are fallen and corrupted if we should allowe this why then are not the leaves of Hollys Joy yew Juniper Broome & other evergreens found here which are all over this country in plenty but noe representation of any of these ever to be met with that I knowe of amongst our fossil plants the thicknesse of the stone where they are found varys, the deeper it lays the thicker & harder & vice versa where it is within 10 or 12 foot of the surface of the earth it is not above 3 or 4 foot thick but where 40 or 5 foot deepe perhaps 8 or 10 thick within this stone are often found small Iron stones with the figurs of plants upon them which can scarce be reconciled to the Dr not in of specifick gravity & levity of which you shall have specimens when I have a collection worth sending. there impresses are found in the midle of a redish stone dug up in the coalmines at nue Castle of a Lenticulare figure which the workemen there call CatsHead some of these I have seen in Mr Thoresbys collection Dr Listers pectenites umbratilip is prety plentifull in these parts, & lys immediatly above the coale sometimes a foot thick & often two, but where this prevails the miners always looke upon the coale to be bad, & as they terme it cats out the coale it wil not be easy to refer this to any shell I ever sawe, but I feare I have too long detained you with this discourse towards the end of the next month I wil send you a parcel of dried plants & hope that before that time to pick up some curiositys to send you along with them which shall be the endeavours of Worthy Sir your much obliged servant Ric: Richardson

Richardson was a physician and botanist who traveled widely in England, Wales, and Scotland in search of rare specimens. He corresponded and exchanged plants with many well-known botanists and naturalists (W. P. Courtney, Richardson, Richard (16631741), rev. Peter Davis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23576, accessed 31 May 2011]).



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Letter 0758

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Richard Richardson to John Woodward – July 8, 1702


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Date: July 8, 1702
Author: Richard Richardson
Recipient: John Woodward

Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4039
Folio: ff. 4-5


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[fol. 4] North Bierley July 8 702 Sir/ I received yours sometime agoe & am very much obliged to you for the offer of your assistance in order to a collection of naturel raritys; tis very likely you have duplicats of severall curiositiys often brought you to be sold when that happens doe me the favoure to be a purchase for me & I wil very thankfully disburst whatever you lay out upon my account any thing in naturell History cannot come amiss but in medals I doe not intent to concerne my selfe my collection of Bookes in Nat: Hist: is but very inconciderable being but an nue beginer in that way unles in Botany, & of that sort I am prety wel provided, though I want severall late Authors. I have nothing of Dr Turniforts unles his Cat: of the garden at paris & of Dr plucknets I have only the 3 parts of his phytographia of Boccon I have nothing but his Ion: el discription: plantaru put out by Dr Morison Dr Sherard tels me he wil helpe me with his 2 last volumes father plumes Booke I have not nor Rivinus his ordo plataru; I have Aldovandi opera omnia Gesneri opera Musica Wormiani Prontuis’s history of East & West Indies & of Brasil Dr plots Nat: Hist of oxfordshire & staffordshire & Dr Leigh of Lancashire if worthy to be named amongst the rest, alsoe whatever Mr Ray & Dr Lister have written only his synopsis Conchilieru. Muffets theatru Insectaru, & Willoughbys Ornithologia, Mr Lhwyd Lythophysucia Dr Woodswards Booke with what has been writen against it & Harry’s vindication there are the those of my small stock which I am very desirouse to increase if you meet with any Bookes in this way (without giving your selfe trouble) that wil be instructive to me you shall be thankfully be repayed I have litle to offer to you in relation to coale plants but what Mr Lhwyd has already printed severall years agoe he sent me 2 or 3 of them out of Wales, which put me upon the Curiosity of inquiring what our Coalemines might produce & by good fate the first day fell upon the place where afterwards I found them in great plenty & though I have not been idle since in searching whenever I found coalemines, yet never had the fortune to succeed elsewheare, the place is now quite deserted, soe that I have litle hopes of procuring any more from thence these impresses are found in a bluish stone about 7 or 8 foot above the coale where this stone lys deepe you rarely meet with any, the greatest depth I ever found them here is about 30 foot from the superficies of the earth; in dignig [sic] severall pitts to draine the water from the Coale in this place I had the advantage of observing, that where the stone was softest which was always nigh the top of the earth there I found the greatest plenty of these stoaneplants which would seem I favoure Mr Lhwyds Hypothesis about the origin of these Bodys [fol. 5] if they would agree upon comparing with the capilarys of this country but soe far from that that I never yet met with one Ferne that did in all respects exactly agree with any of these fossil plants & to believe that the essentiall part of the seed of these plants should be brought hither by rains from far countrys & deposited in the Bowels of the earth to soe as to produce plants, seems lyable to a great many objection, however the notion is ingeniouse enough that these receive theire formes from real plants I am fully convinced, having often met with the plant upon opening some of these stones but always very thin & membranouse & apt to be blowne away with the least winde how these plants came Hither I shall leave our friend D. W. to determine, who I hope in his large worke when it comes out wil give us ample satisfaction about this affaire but that the plants themselves were driven hither from remoate parts in Noahs flood & to remaine soe intire when all hard bodys were desolved as to give benig [sic] to these figures I feare wil not be very easy to account for & why 1000 capilarys are found for one […] plants in this stone I cannot give any satisfactory reason unles we should say severall of these retaine theire leaves all winter, when those of other plants & trees are fallen and corrupted if we should allowe this why then are not the leaves of Hollys Joy yew Juniper Broome & other evergreens found here which are all over this country in plenty but noe representation of any of these ever to be met with that I knowe of amongst our fossil plants the thicknesse of the stone where they are found varys, the deeper it lays the thicker & harder & vice versa where it is within 10 or 12 foot of the surface of the earth it is not above 3 or 4 foot thick but where 40 or 5 foot deepe perhaps 8 or 10 thick within this stone are often found small Iron stones with the figurs of plants upon them which can scarce be reconciled to the Dr not in of specifick gravity & levity of which you shall have specimens when I have a collection worth sending. there impresses are found in the midle of a redish stone dug up in the coalmines at nue Castle of a Lenticulare figure which the workemen there call CatsHead some of these I have seen in Mr Thoresbys collection Dr Listers pectenites umbratilip is prety plentifull in these parts, & lys immediatly above the coale sometimes a foot thick & often two, but where this prevails the miners always looke upon the coale to be bad, & as they terme it cats out the coale it wil not be easy to refer this to any shell I ever sawe, but I feare I have too long detained you with this discourse towards the end of the next month I wil send you a parcel of dried plants & hope that before that time to pick up some curiositys to send you along with them which shall be the endeavours of Worthy Sir your much obliged servant Ric: Richardson

Richardson was a physician and botanist who traveled widely in England, Wales, and Scotland in search of rare specimens. He corresponded and exchanged plants with many well-known botanists and naturalists (W. P. Courtney, Richardson, Richard (16631741), rev. Peter Davis, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2010 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23576, accessed 31 May 2011]).



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