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William Sherard to Hans Sloane – March 1, 1701/02
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Date: March 1, 1701/02
Author: William Sherard
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 308-309
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[fol. 308]
Dear Sr.
I thank you for yrs& ye Transactions, wch I since read. pray let me know what ye whole sett will cost & in how many volumes bound. I’me dest-ined by 2 correspondents to send them word. I shoud be glad to hear you have picked up any other of ye books my friend being ready to go for Paris you may print Sigre Dal Papas paper if you think fitt. we hear The London is ot of his place, her Grace has asked me abt it severall times but I know no-thing of it, if you can inform of ye reasons (for what reported here I’me sures false) of his be-ing discussed ye kings service, youll oblige me I abound daily in new seeds, but for want of a gardener & necassary convieniences (wch one woud think kindness be wanting here) shall give but a bad acct, of them. I’me sorry I have been at ye trouble & excuse of pro-curing of them but I shall tell you more of this
[fol. 308v]
wn I have ye hon. to see you, wch I hope will not be long, unless my Lady worries ter persists resolute to break ye match. I am Sr
yr most obliged humble servy
WSherard
Badmington
March 1- 1701
I expect every day a collection of plants from Paris for his Grace wn they come his greace will write to you (or order me) about them.
Pray here you meet ye Pliny de Monst Pinet du Norray & [?] I desire to know ye price of ye Transactions, unbound & bound Ime desir’d also to inform my self of a speci-fique Dr G. Hawey has for a consumption is there any such think as I remember he has writ a book in English about it.
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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John Ray to Hans Sloane – April 4, 1694
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Date: April 4, 1694
Author: John Ray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: ff. 165-166
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Ray has returned ‘by Carrier [Sloane’s] descriptions & draughts of Birds’. He has sent a letter for Mr Smith the bookseller. Ray admits a bird known as ‘the Cuntur’ seemed to be nothing more than a ‘fabulous & Romantic’ story. He found ‘no mention of it in Mr Willughbyes Ornithology’, but Sloane’s letter convinced him of ‘ye truth of it’. Ray found Sloane’s suggestion that ‘many species both of Fishes & Birds, & of those last especially aquatic, common to Europe and America’. More research needs to be done on waterfowl and acquatic plants. Ray thinks many of the birds in Hernandez’s Mexican collection are the same as those Sloane possesses. He was ‘too slothfull to compare them’.
Ray was a theologian and naturalist who collected and catalogued his botanical findings in the much lauded Historia plantarum (1686, 1688) (Scott Mandelbrote, Ray , John (16271705), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23203, accessed 18 June 2013]).
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William Sherard to Hans Sloane – October 25, 1694
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Date: October 25, 1694
Author: William Sherard
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: f. 186
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[fol. 186] Dear Sr I was in hopes before this to have seen your Prodromus but supposing it to be at London for want of a convenient opportunity of sending of it, thought first to let you know yr if you please to honour me wth one my Brother will send it me by Mr Scawen upon talking to Dr Herman about ye Corlax Winteranus, he shew’d me a little bit of it, you will infinitely oblige him, if you will send to him a piece of it, as also of yr Canella alba wth ye outside bark on it, wch he has not, his being only yr inner part. I have given a large acct to Capt’n Hatton of ye proceeding of Botany & books printing here, to whom I refer you wth ye rest of ye Gent. of ye Clubb if I can do you any service here or elsewhere in my travells there shall be nothing wanting yt has in my power if you’ll be pleased to read ye comands to Sr yr most humble serv’t W Sherard Leyden oct. 25.11.S.94
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 (1659–1728)’, 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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Sir Robert Eyre (b. 1666, d. 1735) was the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas. He came from a long line of barristers, becoming one himself in 1690. His family had important interests in Salisbury, for which he became an MP (1698-1710).
Reference
David Lemmings, ‘Eyre, Sir Robert (1666–1735)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2015 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/9036, accessed 23 Jan 2017].
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Edmund Gibson to Hans Sloane – October 4, 1727
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Date: October 4, 1727
Author: Edmund Gibson
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4049
Folio: ff. 42-43
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[fol. 42]
Fulham, Oct. 4th. 1727.
Hond Sr,
I have a Child here that has been
ailing for some days, and we know not well
what to make of it. As it has been longing upon
her so long we should be glad to have as speedy
Advice as we can, and covet that you could
come so far this afternoon; but if you cannot
do that, to come to morrow morning.
I am,
Sr
Your affecte friend
Edm: London.
Edmund Gibson (bap. 1669, d. 1748) was a clergyman. He served as Bishop of Lincoln and Bishop of London (Stephen Taylor, Gibson, Edmund (bap. 1669, d. 1748), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/10615, accessed 21 June 2013]).
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William Sherard to Hans Sloane – September 22, 1701
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Date: September 22, 1701
Author: William Sherard
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4038
Folio: ff. 242-243
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Sherard writes regarding prints that were sent from Paris, which have yet to arrive in London. He asks Sloane to send them to him when they come. He lists all the people for whom the prints are intended. Sherard is off to Bath soon and mentions that ‘By a letter from Monsr. Vaillant I hear Dr Tournefort was at Constantinople Apr. 8th.’
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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John Anstis to Hans Sloane – February 15, 1721/22
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Date: February 15, 1721/22
Author: John Anstis
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4046
Folio: ff. 207-208
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[fol. 207] S.r Dr Tanner, who informed me that in one of your MSS of Phisick, there is contained somewhat relating to the famous S.r John Hastolf hath communicated to me some Extracts from it, by which I hope this Volume may be discovered, De virtuti Olei Oliva Secundum Petrum de Crescentys, prout compilavi de libro Joannis Somerset M D. in Univ. Cant 1471[.] Aquavita- Secundum fratrem Joannem Willys Ord. Min. conventus Bridgewater[.] Tractalus de Arbori Benedicta dedicatus Rev’me Archupo Cant a magistro Arnoldo de Villa Nova[.] Collections Medicinales, wherein is an account of one John Green a Physitian in Bristoll[.] If by these Notes you could readily put your hand upon this Book, you would very much oblige me, in a design I am engaged in of retrieving the Memories of the Antient Knights of the Garter, and none hath been so much injured as that of Sr John Hastolf. I beg your pardon for this presumption, and am with the greatest respect Yr most Obedt humble Servt John Anstis Heralds Office ffeb. 15 1721/2
John Anstis was a herald, antiquary, and MP (Stuart Handley, Anstis, John (16691744), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/584, accessed 28 June 2011]).
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John Ray to Hans Sloane – February 28, 1693
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Date: February 28, 1693
Author: John Ray
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4036
Folio: f. 161
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Ray received Sloane’s letters and ‘the Box containing your draughts & descriptions of Birds’ last Monday. He cannot comment on them ’till I received the Synonyma you mentioned’. Ray discusses his apprehension that there are several species of waterfowl ‘common to Europe and America’. He admires Sloane’s industrious collecting and thanks him for offering to send the catalogue of Jamaican plants. He declines to accept the catalogue because his new book ‘meddle[s] not with American & Indian plants’.
Ray was a theologian and naturalist who collected and catalogued his botanical findings in the much lauded Historia plantarum (1686, 1688) (Scott Mandelbrote, Ray , John (16271705), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Oct 2005 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/23203, accessed 18 June 2013]).
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James Cuninghame to Hans Sloane – September 22, 1707
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Date: September 22, 1707
Author: James Cuninghame
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4041
Folio: ff. 25-26
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[fol. 25]
Worthy Sir
When I arrivd here in April last
from Cochinchina I took the opportunitie just to let
you know that I was alive; and upon my arrival at
Banjar I receivd yours of the date December 15. 1704
with a great deal of pleasure being the second I have
had from you since I left England. Im obligd to
you for remembring me with some Books, but only the
Transactions come to my hands. After the Honble
Companie was pleasd to conferr upon me the
Chiefship of Banjar, I thought of staying there
sometime to fetch up my losses, but now that place
being likewise ruind, I begin to think it high time
to make a trip home to visite mt friends which is
the greatest raritie I can bring them after running
of so many hazards (the relation whereof might
bring me into the list with Mendez Pinto) which
have deprivd me of the opportunitie I formerlie
enjoyd of endeavouring to graitifie my Worthy Friends
with what curiosities came in my way: Nevertheless
the deep impression of Gratitude & my Inclinations
continue still the same, & as a token thereof I send
you a few minute Specimens of Cochinchinese
Plants by the Surgeon of the Carleton, hoping to
bring the rest myself upon the Bleinheim next year
if we meet but a favorable of getting a loading here
for her. I am with all imagineable respect
Sir
Your most Obliged &
most Humble Servt
Ja: Cuninghame
Batavia
Septr. 22. 1707
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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Michael Maittaire to Hans Sloane – July 25, 1731
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Date: July 25, 1731
Author: Michael Maittaire
Recipient: Hans Sloane
Library: British Library, London
Manuscript: Sloane MS 4051
Folio: ff. 282-283
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[fol. 282] 1731. July ye 25 Hond Sir, I am very much obliged to you for your accustomed communicative temper; which I wish all learned men were endow’d with. I don’t doubt but you’l secure the valuable MS. you mention for your Library, which ough to want nothing that is good and rare. The next opportunity I have of coming to town, I’l take the liberty of waiting on you, and viewing it. The printed books of the Oxford Marbles have indeed many faults, which could not escape the eyes of so sagacious a man as Dr Halley. I receiv’d by this Post a Proof of my edition of the Marbles, wch I am now sending back corrected. The numbers of the pages of that sheet are 637, 638, 639, 640. By which you may perceive, how many sheets we have finished.
Our family here is in very much hurry. The Dutchess was yesterday morning taken ill of a sudden.
Give me leave to subscribe myself, Worthy Sir, with much gratitude and respect, Your most obedient and most humble servt MMaittaire
I must also acquaint you, that I am hard at work upon a tedious and long Index to my Annales Typographici. ‘Tis written fair as farr as the Letter G.
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]).
